中国人需要起英文名字吗
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中国人需要起英文名字吗？Do I Need an English
Name?
BBC英语教学 发表于 2010年09月17日 18:48 阅读(8973)
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中国人
学生
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昨天我BBC的英文老师问了我一个很有趣的问题，“中国学生为什么热衷起一
个英文名字？”
My English teacher in the BBC asked me a
question yesterday. She asked me why are
Chinese students very keen to have an English
name?
我的老师在大学教学的时候，她的学生来自世界各地
，她说非洲的学生有非洲的
名字，印度的学生有印度的名字，欧洲的学生有欧洲的名字，但是中国的学生
大
部分都有一个英文名字。有些中国学生甚至造一些奇怪的让人好笑的英文名字。
有时候，她难
以把中国学生的英文名字和他们注册的中国名字联系起来。她问我，
为什么中国学生不喜欢用他们自己的
中国名字？
When she was teaching at a university,
she taught students from all over the world.
Her students from Africa have African names,
students from India have Indian names
and
students from other European countries have names
related to their own
countries. However, most
of her Chinese students have English names. Some
Chinese
students even have very strange and
funny English names. Sometimes she found it
difficult to relate Chinese students' English
names and their registered Chinese names.
She
asked me why Chinese students don't like their
Chinese names.
我觉得很难给她一个答案，我说可能是因为他们觉得自
己名字的发音不容易让外
国人读出来，所以他们选择一个英文名字，容易让别人读。
It's
difficult to answer her question. I told her maybe
that's because Chinese students
thought their
Chinese names might be difficult for British
people to pronounce, and
therefore they
have chosen an English name.
我的老师觉得很难理解，
因为在英国，很多英国人的名字也很难读，更不用说一
些中东、非洲国家人的名字了。没有人会抱怨别人
的名字不好读，人们都会努力
说好你的名字。这不应该成为改变自己名字的原因。
My teacher didn't understand my explanation.
In Britain, many British people have
long and
difficult names, let alone people from some other
countries like the Middle
East or Africa.
People in Britain are usually willing to try to
pronounce your name
correctly. Worrying about
people having difficulty trying to pronounce your
name
shouldn't be a reason to change your
name.
我又解释说，可能是中国学生希望尽快融入英国文化中的原因吧。我的老师还
是
表示无法理解。因为她觉得一个人的名字同时也是他自己的一个身份象征。起一
个与自己民族
文化无关的名字，真的很让人费解。
I found another reason. It's
probably because Chinese students want to melt
into the
local culture as soon as possible. My
teacher still couldn't understand. She believes
that a person's name is also their identity.
It's confusing to have a name not relating to
your culture and nationality.
这真是一个有
趣的问题。我以前在中国的时候，我也有英文名字，我的朋友大多
都有一个英文名字。我们觉得很正常。
This was a really interesting discussion. When
I was in China, I also had an English
name.
Many of my friends have English names too. It's
normal to have an English
name.
现在我在
英国，我也发现中国人起一个英文名字很多余。第一，从名字上让人觉
得很搞不清你的民族、身份，另外
，还会让人难以把你的英文名字和中文名字联
系起来。最重要的是，我觉得我的中国名字非常好听。我在
英国的朋友也觉得我
的中国名字很好听。
Since being in London,
I have found it is totally unnecessary for me to
have an
English name. First of all, it's
confusing to other people as they don't identify
your
English name with your culture and it can
be difficult for others to relate your English
name to your real Chinese name. And most
importantly, I think my Chinese name,
Wang
Fei, sounds very good. Many of my friends in
London also like my Chinese
name.
有一次，我电话采访一个英国当地人，当我告诉他我的名字的时候，他问我“你
是中国人吗？”
我说“是的。你怎么知道的？” 他说 “我从你的名字猜出来
的。”
我感觉很好。我的名字，我的外貌还有我的文化和思想，都是一致的，
都是中国的。
Once, I interviewed a local British person on
the telephone. When I told him my
Chinese
name, he asked whether I was from China. I said
yes and asked him how he
found out this. He
answered that he guessed from my name. I felt very
good about
this. My name, my
appearance, my culture and my way of thinking are
all Chinese,
they are consistent.
起一个英文名字？真的是没有什么必要。
So, from my point of
view, it's totally unnecessary for a Chinese
people to have an
English name.
(亲爱的朋友，你们对这个话题怎么看呢？我们讨论一下。
What do you
think of this? I hope we can discuss about this
topic.)