of which they were created, 这里为什么用介词of 呢
"I scarcely know. It was strange and fantastic. It was a vision of the beginnings of the world, the Garden of Eden, with Adam and Eve -- que sais-je? -- it was a hymn to the beauty of the human form, male and female, and the praise of Nature, sublime, indifferent, lovely, and cruel. It gave you an awful sense of the infinity of space and of the endlessness of time. Because he painted the trees I see about me every day, the cocoa-nuts, the banyans, the flamboyants, the alligator-pears, I have seen them ever since differently, as though there were in them a spirit and a mystery which I am ever on the point of seizing and which forever escapes me. The colours were the colours familiar to me, and yet they were different. They had a significance which was all their own. And those nude men and women. They were of the earth, and yet apart from it. They seemed to possess something of the clay of which they were created, and at the same time something divine. You saw man in the nakedness of his primeval instincts, and you were afraid, for you saw yourself."
这一句 of which they were created, 这里为什么用介词of 呢？应该是create sth by/out of/from sth...
另外They were of the earth 这里的were of是“具有”earth属性的意思吗？
最佳答案 2021-05-06 17:23
They were of the earth, and yet apart from it. They seemed to possess something of the clay of which they were created, and at the same time something divine.
第一个 of 表示 “来源” 关系。跟 be born of 中的 of 属于同一种用法。
第二个 of 表示 “材料” 关系。of 后面的词语，说明“用来制造的材料”，跟 be made of 属于同一个用法，当然，用 from 也可以。
两句都用 of 而不用 from，含义不那么直白，比 from 具有更多的想象。
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