过去分词短语用作非限制性定语
过去分词短语有时亦可用作非限制性定语,放在被修饰的名词后面,常用逗号与被修饰词隔开。此时的过去分词作定语只是对被修饰词加以补充说明,关系不紧密,相当于非限制性定语从句。
Some of them, born and brought up in rural villages, had never seen a train. =
Some of them, who were born and brought up in rural villages, had never seen a train.
他们当中有一些人, 生长在农村,从未见过火车。