有读者问：有这样一句话：
(1)And there, glowing with a faint blue light in the glass test-tubes on the table, was the mysterious something which they had worked so hard to find: Radium.
请问该句中的形容词 mysterious 为什么放在不定代词之前？
句中的 something 确是有点不寻常，它前面不但有形容词 mysterious, 而且有定冠词 the。这是由于不定代词在此被用作名词所致。你如愿意的话，也可以将它叫做名词化的不定代词。这种名词化了的不定代词和其他名词化的词一样，使得英语词汇更加丰富多彩。下面再举几例，以供参考：
(2)A something made her happy.
(3)I'm not a somebody , but a nobody.
(4)— What says the letter?
— Kind nothings .
