轻松学英语：谈论名字

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你好，欢迎收看《真实简易英语》。

Hello, and welcome to Real Easy English.

我们又回来了，带来另一段简易英语对话，帮你提高英语。

We're back with another conversation in easy English to help you learn.

我叫菲尔。

I'm Phil.

我是乔治。

And I'm Georgie.

你可以在我们网站上找到带字幕的视频版播客，方便你跟着读。

You can find a video version of this podcast with subtitles so you can read along.

所有内容都在我们的网站上。

It's all on our website.

网址是 bbclearningenglish.com。

That's bbclearningenglish.com.

你好。

Hi.

乔治，你最近怎么样？

How are you, Georgie?

我很好。

I'm very well.

谢谢你，菲尔。

Thank you, Phil.

你怎么样？

How are you?

我挺好的。

I'm good.

我非常好。

I'm very good.

今天，我们来聊聊名字这件事。

Today, we're going to talk all about names.

我们会说说自己的名字，以及它们的来历。

We're gonna talk about our names and where they come from.

哦，这个话题挺有意思的。

Oh, it's an interesting topic.

菲尔，你的名字有什么故事吗？

Phil, what's the story behind your name?

你是不是以某个人或某样东西命名的？

Were you named after anyone or anything?

说实话，我不知道。

I don't know, if I'm honest.

我也不清楚为什么叫这个名字。

I don't know why I have my name.

明白了。

Okay.

是的。

Yeah.

我倒希望我的名字有更特别的来历，但我爸妈有朋友养了一只叫Georgia的狗，他们很喜欢这个名字。

I wish I had a better story for my name, but my parents had friends that had a dog called Georgia, and they liked that name.

于是他们就给我取名叫Georgia，这可能是第一次有人知道我的真名是Georgia，不是Georgie。

And so they decided to call me Georgia, which might be the first time people are hearing that my name my real name is Georgia, not Georgie.

啊。

Ah.

所以，我大概是被以一只狗的名字命名的。

So I guess I was named after a dog.

你的名字是菲利普，但很多人叫你菲尔，那是昵称。

So your name is Philip, but lots of people call you Phil, which is a nickname.

昵称是朋友和家人给你起的非正式叫法，通常是对原名的缩写，比如菲尔。

So a nickname is an informal name given to you by friends and family, which is often a shortened version like Phil.

对。

Yes.

没错。

Yeah.

很多时候，就是把原名缩短了。

Often, it's a shortened name.

对我来说，这是唯一一个一直被人叫着不改的称呼。

In my case, that's the only one that's ever stuck that people have ever called me.

不过有时候，朋友也会给你起个搞笑的外号，跟本名一点关系都没有，但就是这么叫你。

But you can also sometimes have, like, a jokey, fun name that might not be anything to do with your real name, but your friends call you that.

很多人在学校或者家里都有这样的外号。

Lots of people have them at school or in your family.

乔治，你有外号吗？

Do you have any nicknames, Georgie?

有。

Yes.

我爸爸叫我比利，是‘傻比利’的简称，因为我老做些傻事。

I have a nickname that my dad calls me, which is Billy, short for silly Billy, because I do lots of stupid things.

我感觉你挺喜欢这个外号的？

I'm I'm getting the feeling do you like that nickname?

或者

Or

我觉得挺有意思的。

I think it's quite it's quite funny.

还挺暖心的。

It's quite sweet.

我也没觉得这有什么大不了的。

I don't mind it that much.

只要只有我爸爸这么叫我，我就无所谓。

As long as it's only my dad that calls me Billy, it's okay.

你喜欢自己的名字吗？

Do you like your name?

我从来没怎么想过这个问题，不过我觉得我还挺喜欢的。

I've never thought about it a lot, so I think I do.

这名字不算特别少见。

It's it's not an unusual name.

可能吧，我也说不准。

It might be I don't know.

有个特别的名字或许挺麻烦的，但我觉得也不算特别普遍。

It might be difficult to have an unusual name, but I don't think it's too common either.

总不能到处都是这名字吧。

It's not like everyone has it.

是的。

Yeah.

我觉得这个名字再合适不过了。

I think that's perfect for a name.

我喜欢这个。

I like that.

所以菲尔，你有没有给过孩子或者宠物起名？难不难？

So Phil, have you ever had to name something like a child or a pet, and was it difficult?

我得给两个孩子起名。

I had to name two people, two children.

给我女儿起名的时候，我妻子特别坚持我们选的那个名字，所以对我来说挺容易的。

For my daughter, my wife was very keen on the name that we gave my daughter, so she said that was easy for me.

这样挺好。

That's that's fine.

给我儿子起名时，我特别想要一个在英语和西班牙语里都适用、差别不大的名字。

For my son, I really wanted a name that worked in English and in Spanish and wasn't too different.

其实，能同时在英语和西班牙语里用得顺口的男孩名字没几个，我想来想去也想不出几个。

And there's not actually that many boys names that work easily in both languages or that I could think of.

是的。

Yeah.

因为你妻子是阿根廷人，所以你需要一个两种语言都适用的名字。

Because your wife is from Argentina, so you needed a name that that worked in both.

好吧，Georgie。

Okay, Georgie.

你有没有过给宠物或者人取名的经历？

Have you ever had to name something like a pet or someone?

其实，我父母过几周就要养一只狗，我们现在正在挑名字。

Well, actually, my parents are getting a dog in a in a couple of weeks, and we're thinking about names right now.

所以你这个问题还挺贴切的。

So it's quite a relevant question.

确实挺难的，对吧？

It is difficult, isn't it?

因为你得选一个你会长久喜欢的名字，不会用久了就厌烦，毕竟你每天都要叫它。

Because you have to think of a name that you're going to like for a long time, that you're not gonna get bored of because you use it so much.

对。

Yeah.

给狗取名的话，最好别选太常见的，不然你一喊狗名，整个公园的狗都跑过来。

I guess with dogs names, you don't want to have something that's too common because when you call your dog, the whole park will come running to Yeah.

没错。

Exactly.

我们想找个不太普通、有点趣味的名字。

We're trying to think of something a little bit more unusual and fun.

好的。

Okay.

我们来回顾一下刚才对话里出现的词汇，首先是昵称，指家人和朋友用的非正式叫法。

Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation, starting with nickname, which is an informal name used by family and friends.

‘name’ 也可以当动词用，意思是给某人取名字。

We can use name as a verb, which means to give someone a name.

比如，我爸妈给我取名叫乔治。

For example, my parents named me Georgie.

如果你的名字是取自某人或某物，那就是因为对方而用了同样的名字。

If you're named after something or someone, you're given the same name as them because of them.

比如，乔治就是以一只叫佐治亚的狗命名的。

For example, Georgie was named after a dog called Georgia.

我就是这种情况。

I was.

你的名字可能是常见的，也就是说很多人跟你同名。

Your name might be common, which means lots of people have the same name.

或者你的名字比较特别，意思是很少有人跟你同名。

Or your name might be unusual, and that means that not many people have the same name.

好了，本期《轻松英语》就到这里。

That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

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我们下周再回来，继续带来更多简单的英语内容。

We'll be back next week with more Easy English.

暂时再见了。

Goodbye for now.

再见。

Bye.