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1、DiscussiononthecharacteristicsofEnglishNumeralsIdioms[Abstract]EnglishNumeralsveryextensiveuseofidioms.AnaccurateunderstandingofandproficiencyinthecompositionofcommonEnglishidiomsNumerals，syntacticfunctionsandsemanticandrhetoricalfeaturestoenrichourEnglishisverygoodexpression.[Keywords

2、:]EnglishNumeralsidiomsposearhetoricalcharacteristicsemanticfeaturesofsyntacticfunctionsEnglishidiomreferringtothenumeralnumeralstogetherwithotherwordswithafixedconventionconsistingofphrasesorphrase,andsomesaidtheoriginalmeaning，andsomesaidtheextendedmeaning，orotherrhetoricalsignifican

3、ce,oranalogy,orexaggerated，orsubtleeuphemism,tomakelanguagemorerich，lively,vivid，meaningful.(A)structuralcharacteristicsofFromtheformalpointofview.EnglishIdiomsNumeralshavethefollowingmainstructures:1.N1and/orN2:N1isthebasewordorordinalnumeral，N2isthebaseword，ordinalnumeral,orotherword

4、scontainingthenumberofconcepts.Forexample:I’veinvitedoneortwofriendstothepartythismorning.(ThismorningIinvitedoneortwofriendstotheparty.)Therearecommon:twoorthree(afew),athou-sand/hundredandone(ofmany),twentyandtwenty(countless)，five-and-ten(largedepartmentstores)，etc..2.PN(p):Pmainlyr

5、eferstoat，on，in，bysuchasprepositions，N(p)saidthenumeraloranumeralphrases,whereNcanbeabasewordorordinalnumeral,isthebasewordwasthereforthepluralform.Forexample:Everythinginthehouseisatsixesandsevens，(everythinginthehouseamess.)Suchnumeralsidiomsare:by/intwosandthrees(3322)，intwotwos(abl

6、inkofaneye，andsoon)，tothenines(perfect，gorgeousland)，bythehundred(s)(amountingto100account，thelargenumbers),likesixty(fasttoverystrong),onallfours(hand，footandlandPufuZhao)，etc..1.PN1N:Pmainlyreferstoaton，in，bysuchasmallnumberofprepositions，Nl，saidthebasewordorordinalnumeral，Nthatterm.

7、Forexample:OnsecondthouzhtsTminclinedtoagreewithyou.(Furtherconsideration，Iaminclinedtoagreewithyou.)Suchnumeralsidiomsare:inseventhheaven(extremelyhappy)，atfirstthought(Zhayiwantto)，atfirstsight(atfirstsight)，attheeleventhhour(atthelastmoment，intimesofcrisis),etc..2.N1PN2:N1isthebas