Chapter 30 say name

Dear Xiaowen: I received your letter on the 8th the day before yesterday. Your name is Hedy, and grandma said Hidy, probably from grandma. In English, name refers to "surname" and also refers to "name" and "name", so in Hedy Lee, Hedy is name, Lee is also name, and Hedy Lee is also name. It is customary in China to put the "surname" at the front, but the English "surname" is placed at the back. For example, during the American Civil War, a famous general was called Robert Edward Lee The first one is called first name, which is "first name" not "surname", also called given name, also called Christian name (Christian name, which is the most common in the UK), the middle one is called second name or middle name, and the last one is " Surname", also known as surname or family name, or last name. Lee has the same "surname" as us.

Generally, Americans have three names (that is, two "first name" plus a "surname"), the first one and the middle one (that is, the first two), which are his own names (Personal names), because the name is his own, so It can be abbreviated, so General Lee above can be abbreviated as Robert E. Lee or RE Lee. Not only the abbreviation, but also another nickname, for example: The current president of the United States is Richard Milhous Nixon, and Richard's nickname is Dick. His wife is Thelma Patricia Ryan, and Patricia's nickname is Pat. Your first name is Hedy, and your nickname is Heddie or Hedie.

After a woman gets married, she can move her husband's name and add Mrs. in front of it.But American women often use her own name. The Nobel Prize-winning writer Pearl Buck, whose real name is Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Pearl means "pearl". The surname Sydenstricker is too wordy, so it is translated into the sound of the first word "Sai".After she married John Lossing Buck, who taught at Jinling University in China, her name became Pearl Sydenstricker Buck In 1931 she published a novel called "The Good Earth" (The Good Earth), using the above title.She divorced in 1935 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Although she married the publisher Richard J. Walsh again, she was too famous under the name of Pearl S. Buck, so she didn't change it.It can be seen that it is much easier to separate people than names.

dad May 25, 1974