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winslowtt
said on April 8, 2010
In question #3: 中国是一个古老____年轻的国家。 Why can't the answer be 又 (both ancient and young)?
Gail天堂的声音
said on April 9, 2010
@winslowtt,
Here we can use既……又 actually. You are right, if we use adj.+又+adj., it means "both...and...", however, when we use 又, we should not put two opposite words in the structure， also we should put some other thing(e.g.adverbs) together with the adjectives.
For instance:
他很高大又很强壮。
她很漂亮又很聪明。
When we use 又……又，既……又 or 而，we can use opposite words:
她又想去又不想去，所以决定不了。
中国的文化既年轻又古老。
我既高兴又难过。
英国是一个古老而年轻的国家。
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