时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词大师-Word Master


英语课

 AA: Im Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is on assignment. This week on Wordmaster -- names in America. And now heres a name that should be familiar by now to our listeners: Lida Baker 1 teaches in the American Language Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. I asked her for some advice for students who come here and wonder what to call themselves.


BAKER: "One way to select a name that theyre going to use in this country would be just to translate their name from their native language. Now a lot of other students, what they do, is that they choose an American name that sounds similar to their name in their native language. So, for example, right now I have a student from Korea, a man whose name is Jong-il, and he calls himself John.
"Another thing that students often do is that theyll just simply use their native name. Or they might shorten 2 it in some way. A lot of Japanese students, for example -- Japanese names are not very difficult for Americans to pronounce. If you take a name like Masahiro, we can say that. And so students will tell you to use their actual name or just maybe shorten it to something like Masa or something like Hiro. Thats not a problem for Americans."AA: "You dont have to go through the courts to do this, do you?"BAKER: "Oh, no, no, no. No, you just use it as a nickname 3. On legal documents, I would tell students that they have to use the name thats in their passport. But in any situation where people are asking them, Well, what would you like us to call you? they can choose any name that they like."AA: But Lida Baker says its a good idea to ask a native English speaker whether a name may have an unintended meaning. She gives an example of students shes had from Thailand. Thai names can have many syllables 5.
BAKER: "What Thai students very often do is that they ask us to pull out one of those syllables and they use that as a nickname in class. I would want to counsel 6 that student not to pull out the syllable 4 P-O-R-N and use that as a name in the United States."AA: "Because it would refer to sexual 7 ... "BAKER: "Pornography."AA: "Right."BAKER: "I try to counsel students not to choose names that have any kind of sexual connotation."AA: And there are other connotations to consider to avoid possible embarrassment 8.
BAKER: "One example would be the Chinese family name Fat, very common in Chinese, but of course in English the word fat has not the nicest meaning."AA: "It means overweight. "BAKER: "Right, it means overweight, and Americans would find it very strange if a person asked to be called Fat."AA: There are even some names that are perfectly 9 fine, yet people might want to avoid.
BAKER: "A couple of examples would be -- and these were students who were in my classes -- I had a woman whose name that she wanted us to use was Fifi and another student, a man, who asked us to call him Lucky. What these students didnt know is that those names are often used for dogs in the United States. And I had a student who wanted us to call her Meow -- M-E-O-W -- which is the sound that a cat makes. And it turned out that she really liked cats, and so thats why she chose that name. But again I had to tell her that Americans might find that amusing 10."AA: "And now speaking about cultural norms 11, lets talk a little bit about the order of names in typical American names."BAKER" "OK, well, my name is Lida Rosemary Baker. Lida is my first name, Rosemary is my middle name and Baker is my last name. So the normal word order for names in the United States is first name, middle name, last name. However, there is an exception to that. Anytime that youre filling out a form or an application, such as an application for a drivers license 12 or something like that, they always ask you to list your last name first. So the order in that case would be last name, comma, first name, middle name. So I would be Baker, comma, Lida Rosemary.
AA: "And so now in a situation where you know someones name, maybe you work with that person, when should you call that person just by his or her last name? Is that ever appropriate?"BAKER: "I hear it in sports, when theres a bunch of guys out playing basketball together."AA: "Well, you know whats funny is just yesterday my daughter was playing in a lacrosse game, and one of the things she really liked was that the coach had called her by her last name. She got a kick out of that and enjoyed it."BAKER: "Its done in sports, but its not done in business and its not done among friends very much."AA: Lida Baker teaches in the American Language Center at the UCLA Extension program in Los Angeles. Her textbooks for English learners are available through the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. And thats Wordmaster for this week.

1 baker
n.面包师
  • The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
  • The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
2 shorten
vt.弄短,缩小,减少
  • Minor accidents can shorten the life of a car.小事故会缩短汽车寿命。
  • My dress is too long I must shorten it.我的连衣裙太长了,我得把它截短些。
3 nickname
n.绰号,昵称;v.给...取绰号,叫错名字
  • She called me by my nickname.她叫我的外号。
  • Why do you fasten such a nickname on her?你为什么给她取这样一个绰号?
4 syllable
n.音节;vt.分音节
  • You put too much emphasis on the last syllable.你把最后一个音节读得太重。
  • The stress on the last syllable is light.最后一个音节是轻音节。
5 syllables
n.音节( syllable的名词复数 )
  • a word with two syllables 双音节单词
  • 'No. But I'll swear it was a name of two syllables.' “想不起。不过我可以发誓,它有两个音节。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
6 counsel
n.忠告,劝告,律师,法律顾问;vt.劝告
  • The judge asked counsel for the defence to explain.法官要求被告的辩护律师做出解释。
  • He refused to listen to the old man's counsel.他拒不听从老人的忠告。
7 sexual
adj.性的,两性的,性别的
  • He was a person of gross sexual appetites.他是个性欲旺盛的人。
  • It is socially irresponsible to refuse young people advice on sexual matters.拒绝向年轻人提供性方面的建议是对社会不负责任。
8 embarrassment
n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫
  • She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
  • Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。
9 perfectly
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
10 amusing
adj.有有趣的,好玩的
  • The girl was amusing herself with a doll.那女孩在玩洋娃娃自娱。
  • He related some amusing stories in his childhood to his children.他向孩子们述说了他少年时代的一些趣事。
11 norms
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
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ansa intestinalis
antiscolic
auriculo-acupuncture anesthesia
belly girt
blistering liquid
bossers
brake-field triode
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check only for account
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