A day or two later Mrs. Strickland sent me round a note asking if I could go and see her that evening after dinner. I found her alone. Her black dress, simple to austerity,
suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play according to her notions of seemliness.
请教老师： simple to austerity 这是什么结构呢？形容词+介词to+名词这的意思是和使用方法呢？
Aday or two later Mrs. Strickland sent me round a note asking if I could go andsee her that evening after dinner. I found her alone. Her black dress, simpleto austerity, suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonishedthat notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had TOPlay according to her notions of seemliness.
simpleto austerity，是形容词短语，作dress的非限制性定语。等于：Her black dress, which was simpleto austerity, suggested her bereaved condition。
toausterity 是simple的结果状语，说明“简单到朴素”，指穿着非常简朴。
