quite 可以与 a/an + 名词 连用。如果出现可分级的形容词或没有形容词时,quite 通常置于 a/an 前。
It's quite a nice day. 天气可真好。
We watched quite an interesting film last night.
昨天晚上我们看了一部相当有趣的电影。
She's quite a woman! 她真是个了不起的女人!
The party was quite a success. 这次聚会很成功。
与不可分级的形容词连用时,quite 在英国英语中通常置于 a/an 后面。
It was a quite perfect day.天气好极了。
(美国英语:It was quite a perfect day.)
(以上摘自《牛津英语用法指南》第四版564.2节)
such 可以放在名词或者“形容词 + 名词”的前面,修饰可数名词单数形式时,不定冠词 a/an 应该放在 such 后面。例如:
I'm glad your concert was such a success.
我很高兴你们的音乐会取得这样的成功。
I'm sorry you had such a bad journey.
(= You had a very bad journey,and I'm sorry. )你的旅行这样糟糕,我很遗憾。
It was a pleasure to meet such interesting people.
我很高兴见到这样一些有趣的人。
(以上摘自《牛津英语用法指南》第四版596.3节)