作定语：时间副词(如now、then)以及许多地点副词都可以作名词的定语,放在名词的后面。

　　如：People now often have their festival dinners at restaurants.(现在的人们经常在餐馆里吃节日晚宴) /

　　Women there were living a terrible life in the 1920s.(在二十世纪20年代那儿的女人过着可怕的日子)