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CULTURE
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Your middle name is not your first name what people call you or your family name, your last name.
And not everyone knows other people’s middle names.
My first name is Esther, my last name is Krishniski and I do have the middle name.
It’s Sylvia, I’m named after my father’s older sister.
In some cultures, people have three names. They have a first name, a middle name and a last name.
Their last name is their family name.
In America, the middle name often honors a relative.
A child might have a grandma or grandpa’s name as a middle name.
But sometimes parents just like a name.
So they may give that to their child for a middle name.
Parents sometimes use a famous person’s name.
They may choose a good friends name, too.
relative就是亲戚 last name就是姓氏
parent就是指父亲或母亲
Hi, Sam. What are you doing? I’m signing my name on these cards.
You’re signing your full name.
Yes, I have to.
My first name is Samuel.
But everyone calls you Sam.
Right. Joseph is my middle name.
It’s my grandfather’s name.
In America, a name sometimes honors a relative.
That’s a nice tradition.
And of course Kinkaid is my last name.
So you’re Samuel Joseph Kinkaid.
What’s your full name?
Well, my Chinese name is 魏心怡.
But my English name is Sara Margaret Wei.
Are those names of relatives?
No. My parents like the name Sara.
And Margaret is the name of a good friend.
It’s a nice name.
Thanks.
If you sign your name, you write out your name. Your full name includes your first name, your middle name and your last name or family name.
In some cultures like in Spanish culture, you might even have many more names than that, 5,6 maybe even 7 names.
It can get complicated.
full name指全名
英文的取名和中文的逻辑大不同 英文名通常是名字+中间名+姓
Her full name is Jennifer Alice Cook.
它的全名是Jennifer Alice Cook.
Her first name is Jennifer.
它的名字是Jennifer
Her middle name is Alice.
它的中间名是Alice
Her last name is Cook.
它的姓是cook
family name和surname也都是姓
His first name is Samuel. But he just writes Sam, we can also say the word sam is his nickname暱稱,綽號.
The name you normally say is not actually the full name.
Matt is actually Matthew or Dave is David.
In Japan, people usually introduce themselves with their family name.
That last name or the name at the end is also his family name.
That’s the name that has been passed down傳下來 from the grandparents, usually on the father side父系.
So everyone in your family probably has the same last name traditionally.
Even your mother will have that same last name.
She changed her name after she got married.
And many people still do this.
If you go to America or Canada,after a woman gets married she often will change her last name.
So her last name becomes the same as her husband’s.
What’s your full name? 你的全名是什么
What’s your full name?
Tom.
No. What’s your full name?
Thomas.
No. What’s your full name?
Thomas Smith.
No. What’s your full name?
Thomas Charles Robert William Franklin Smith.
Hmm. I’ll just write Tommy Smith.
Go Home is the title of the book. Go Home 是那本书的书名
125(a hundred twenty five) Fifth Street is the address of the company.
那家公司的地址是第五街125号
Music is the subject of the article.
那篇文章的主题是音乐
In Chinese, the family name is at the very front, it can be one or two words. And at the end of that, there is their name or kind of like their first name.
Even though, it goes at the end, it’s often two characters and it can also be one character.
Sit in the middle seat between us. What is Mary’s last name?
Kevin lives in America.
My aunt is my favorite relative.
Tracy’s parents are very helpful.
New York is a big city in America. Mary is the middle child in the family.
What do your parents think?
Her relative is visiting from Canada.
Paul’s last name is Patterson.
What is Sara’s middle name? Sara’s middle name is Margaret.
Do you have an English name?
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