大考中心最近公布了一份 (111學年度起適用) 的學科能力測驗〈英文考科〉參考試卷,書林美籍編輯 Rebecca Albee,英籍顧問 Ian Maxwell 和我,仔細檢查,並透過 Google求證,將陸續提出改進建議,以下為第一篇:
第壹部分 、 選擇題
一 、 詞彙題
4. The recent cooking oil scandals have led to calls for tougher of sales of food products.
(A) tolerance (B) guarantee (C) regulation (D) distribution
注:"regulation of sales of food products" 雖然文法正確,但念起來有點拗口。
No results found for "regulation of sales of food products". (Google 12/25/19)
美籍編輯及英籍顧問認為以下 3 種講法比較自然,Google 的數據亦可佐證:
"regulations for food products" About 245,000 results
"regulation of food products" About 1,160,000 results
"regulation of food product sales" About 2 results (Google 12/26/19)
"regulation of food product sales" 雖只兩筆,但有兩位母語人士及 World Health Organization (世界衛生組織) 網站可以為之背書:
Marketing Food to Children
whqlibdoc.who.int › publications
a Excludes regulations on the marketing of tobacco and alcohol in schools, and the regulation of food product sales. b Information obtained from a secondary ...
(Jerome Su, Dec 26, 2019)