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By examining the use of one-syllable-adjectives in the modern Chinese, this paper examines the “mirror structure” created by adjectives acting as adverbial in front of a verb, and as complement when placed behind a verb. Focusing on the interactions between adjectives and verbs, this paper illustrates the aspect attributes of Adj.+V and V+Adj. from an event structure perspective. Based on this, the author seeks to explain the contrastive features found in the “mirror structure” of adverbial-complement formed in the discourse function level.