The word
below is used as a preposition and as an adverb, but never as an attributive adjective.单词below能被用作介词和副词，可从来不被用作形容词。
At least, that is what I believed until I received this email from a reader:
至少我之前是这么认为的，然而那是我收到一封来自某读者的邮件之前……
Have you written about the current use (or, rather, misuse) of “below”? People are saying, “Please read the below information and send your
reservation,” etc.
人们会说：“您有没有写过‘below’一词当今的用法（更准确的说，误用）？请读下面的信息，然后发给我您的保留意见。”等等之类的。
Sure enough, a quick Web cruise provides numerous (international) examples of the phrases “below information” and “below form” from sites run by universities, health services, local governments, and newspapers:
很显然，上网一搜，你便能在诸多学校、医疗服务、当地政府的网站和报纸上找到词组“below information”和“below form”（在全球各处）的用法。这样的例子不胜枚举。
To facilitate the application process, please read the below information completely.
After reading the below information, please apply.—Virginia Tech graduate school.
For data classifications and handling please read thebelow information provided by Purdue University.—Purdue University.
If you already participate in CAQH: Please complete thebelow form and submit it (or any questions) using the contact information below.—Molina Healthcare.
Please read the below information to help with the application process.—City of Buffalo, New York.
In each of these examples, the word below should follow the nouns and not stand in front of them.
在这些例句中，单词below应该跟在名词后，而不是处于名词之前。
The Oxford English Dictionary defines this use of below as follows:
牛津英语词典中对below的用法是照如下这样定义的：
below adverb:
Lower on a written sheet or page; hence, later in a book or writing; at the foot of the page.
When an object is present, below is a preposition:
Read the information below the dotted line. (The object is “the dotted line.”)
When no object is present, below is an adverb:
He was asked to sign his name on the line, but he wrote it below.
In a
construction like “Read the information below,” the word modified by the adverb is not stated. O’Conner and Kellerman at Grammarphobia offer this suggestion:奥康纳（O’Conner）和凯勒曼（Kellerman）在Grammarphobia一说中提出了一个观点：在一个像“Read the information below”的结构中，副词below所修饰的单词被省略了。
It might sometimes help to imagine an unstated word like “located” or “positioned” in there somewhere: “the offices on the floor [located] below.”
有时在这个句子“the offices on the floor [located] below.”的某处，把被省略的词想象为“located”或“positioned”也许有所帮助。
Merriam-Webster muddies the waters in the entry for below as an adverb by placing the word adjective in parenthesis beside the word adverb: be·low adverb (or adjective).
韦氏词典让below的词性变得错综复杂——below这一词条，当其作为副词时，单词“adjective（形容词）”放在括号里，位于单词“adverb（副词）”旁。
Paul Brians (
Common Errors in English Usage) regards the
below + noun usage as an
oddity:
保罗·布莱恩（《英语用法中常见的错误》的作者）将below + noun的用法当成一个特例：
When calling your readers’ attention to an illustration or table further on in a text, the proper word order is not “the below table” but “the table below.”
当你让读者去看文本后面的一张插图或是表格，恰当的词序不是“the below table”，而应是“the table below”。
Although it is common to see above placed before a noun in this way, doing it with below sounds very strange to most speakers of standard English.
尽管above在这类场景中通常被放在名词前，对多数说标准英语的人来说，below也如此会听起来很奇怪。
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