请问如何用英语的定语从句表达一个部分变化了的整体?例如：开关失灵的机器、屏幕坏掉的笔记本电脑?用：Themachinewhichswitchwasbroken,Thenotebookwhichscreenwasbroken这样表述对吗?

Question

请问如何用英语的定语从句表达 一个部分变化了的整体?例如：开关失灵的机器、屏幕坏掉的笔记本电脑?
用：The machine which switch was broken,The notebook which screen was broken 这样表述对吗?

Answer 1

如果你想用定语从句来修饰名词“机器”和“笔记本电脑”这两个个名词的话,正确的表达方式应为：the machine whose switch is broken 和 the laptop/notebook computer whose screen went wrong .
请注意不用大写,因为你写的不是两个句子
你的问题其实是定语从句中whose的用法问题.
其它例句比如
This is the girl whose family is in the south .(whose family = the family of whom）
This is the house whose windows face south (whose windows =the windows of which )
注意,因为我写的是句子,所以开头用的都是大写.