英语悠选脱口秀 第159期:英国女孩靠给中国宝宝起英文名字收入50万

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Today we are going to talk about a British girl who earns ￡50,000 advising Chinese parents on appropriate¹ English baby names.

Beau Jessup是一个16岁的英国女孩，生活在一个不太知名的城市。

She came to China one day and she kept being asked to name babies for her parents' friends.

回国后的Beau就想，给别人取名字也不能白取啊。这是一条发家致富奔小康的新门路啊！

All Chinese babies are given a traditional Chinese name at birth, which is written in Chinese characters and used for all government documents.

But there has been a growing demand to adopt an additional² English name that can be read, pronounced and printed in English.

This would be for use on email and for study and business in the West, but these names were chosen at school by an English teacher or even by pupils.

So, she set up SpecialName.cn after spending time in China.

She said:” I also heard lots of examples where people had chosen culturally inappropriate English names they'd heard from films or read online.

It made me realize there was an opportunity to help Chinese people get it right from the start.”

于是，这姑娘就设计一个网站，这个网站可以根据你的理想和对孩子的期望来取名字。

Beau Jessup has so far suggested names for over 200,000 Chinese babies in six months and her unusual business is booming³.

给别人取英文名也能赚钱，那我们给是不是也可以帮助外国朋友取中文名字呢？

And what's your English name?

你的英文名是什么？你有听到过什么好玩又霸气的名字吗？

留言告诉我们吧！

Talk to you next time！

1 appropriate   

adj.适当的，合适的；v.拨出，挪用，盗用

参考例句：

• It is appropriate that he should get the post.由他担任这一职务是恰当的。
• We should take appropriate measures to improve our teaching.我们应当采取适当的措施提高教学质量。

2 additional   

adj.添加的，额外的，另外的

参考例句：

• It is necessary to set down these additional rules.有必要制定这些补充规则。
• I think we can fit in an additional room.我想我们可以再加建一间房子。

3 booming   

adj.急速发展的v.激增( boom的现在分词 )；猛涨；发出隆隆声；以低沉有力的声音说话

参考例句：

• The opera singer has a deep, booming, masculine voice. 这位歌剧演唱家有一副深沉而又浑厚有力的嗓音。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• He is booming as a teacher. 作为一位教师，他日趋成功。 来自《简明英汉词典》