A construction in Latin which consists of a noun and participle or adjective in the ablative case and functions as a sentence adverb, for example Deo volente ‘God willing’.
绝对离格（拉丁语离格中包含一名词和一分词或形容词的结构，作句子的副词，如 mirabile dictu 'wonderful to relate'）
Example sentencesExamples
The commentaries are not at all what they seem to the student puzzling over the ablative absolutes and indirect discourse.
It's about a lawyer circa 70BC, familiar to Latin students more for his ablative absolutes than his crowd-pulling charisma.
Express the phrase as an ablative absolute, leaving out words other than the supplied noun and verb.
Most ablative absolutes are best translated with clauses introduced by when, although, since, or if.
Of course, as the book progresses, you do encounter ablative absolutes and subjunctives and such.
If you make the ablative absolute into its own clause, then you can think about the relationship between this clause and the main sentence.
The genitive absolute is a particular use of the participle, similar to the ablative absolute in Latin.
Definition of ablative absolute in US English:
ablative absolute
noun
A construction in Latin that consists of a noun and participle or adjective in the ablative case and that is syntactically independent of the rest of the sentence.
绝对离格（拉丁语离格中包含一名词和一分词或形容词的结构，作句子的副词，如 mirabile dictu 'wonderful to relate'）
Example sentencesExamples
If you make the ablative absolute into its own clause, then you can think about the relationship between this clause and the main sentence.
Of course, as the book progresses, you do encounter ablative absolutes and subjunctives and such.
The commentaries are not at all what they seem to the student puzzling over the ablative absolutes and indirect discourse.
It's about a lawyer circa 70BC, familiar to Latin students more for his ablative absolutes than his crowd-pulling charisma.
Express the phrase as an ablative absolute, leaving out words other than the supplied noun and verb.
The genitive absolute is a particular use of the participle, similar to the ablative absolute in Latin.
Most ablative absolutes are best translated with clauses introduced by when, although, since, or if.