已失去动词特点的分词：
a/以-en(或-n)结尾的过去分词
有不少过去分词已失去动词特点，成为纯粹的形容词，它们有些以-en(或-n)结尾：
His honesty is a proven fact.
I like frozen fruit.
This is the tomb of forgotten heroes.
How hot is molten iron?
It is said the devil has cloven hoofs.
Some drunken sailors are fighting in the street.
Do you see the hidden meaning of this letter?
下面词组中也包含这种分词：
driven snow, woven thread, sawn timber, hewn timber, a sunken cheek, shrunken clothes, a rotten egg, a shorn lamb, a gaven image, a terror-stricken child, a down-trodden people, ill-gotten money, a swollen face, a carven image, his broken promise.
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