我們說Chinese history,為什么不說Chinese map卻說map of China?
管理員[admin]回復:
不錯,英語習慣上是說 a map of China,好像沒見過 a Chinese man。不過有趣的是,我們在“英國國家語料庫”中查到了幾個British map 的例子(當然語料庫的素材只能作參考,畢竟不是詞典中的用法):
Now that's a British map but it's in two bits.
The British map of industrial employment has changed more fundamentally and dramatically than that of population.
John Cary and the firm he created dominated British map production for a generation at least, being the most influential private-sector map-maker of the age.