Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush's predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half.

如此这般，美国的总统和副总统的姓氏分别是以 B 和C母起头。乔治·布什的前任有二十六位（包括其父）的姓氏均在母表的前半部，而姓氏在母表后半部的却仅有十六位。

The English name makes it sound as though Robinson is the family's surname, but a more accurate translation would be The Swiss Robinsons, because it's about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked, like Robinson Crusoe in the novel of a century earlier.

英听起来鲁滨逊是这个家庭的姓氏，但是更准确的翻译应该是《瑞士的鲁滨逊》，因为这是关于一个遭遇海难的瑞士家庭的故事，就像一个世纪之前的小说《鲁宾逊漂记》一样。

So, in Britain, patrilineal surnames go down through the male line, down through the generations.

所以，在英国，父系姓氏是由男性代代相传的。

But everybody was stuck. A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name-that of Ptolemy.

但没人取得任何进展。直到一位聪颖博学的英国学者托马斯杨发现，一组在反复出现的象形代表了一个王室姓氏的发音—托勒密。

Your surname is perilously close to Yodel.

你的姓氏很像约德尔。

With any look, the series will conclude by finally revealing what her last name is.

无论从哪个角度看，这部剧都会以揭露她的姓氏为结尾。

The Chanel designer dropped the " T" from his surname, so it will be more commercial, especially when he launched his own brand Karl in 1998.

这位香奈儿的设计师更改了自己的姓氏，因他认为这听起来更具商业价值。特别是在1998年他推出自己的个人品牌Karl时，这用意更为明显。

Today we are going to talk about family names.

今天我们来谈谈姓氏。

His surname, Ataturk, means " Father of the Turks" .

他的姓氏阿塔土克意为“土耳其之父”。

Most black people in this country are walking around with a slave owner's last name.

这个国家的很多黑人都用奴隶主的姓氏。

However, some research has shown that if your surname, your family name, begins with a letter later in the alphabet, you could be at a disadvantage at school and in life.

然而，一些研究表明，如果你的姓氏，你的姓，以母表靠后位置的母开头，那你在学校和生活中可能处于劣势。

And would you spell your last name for me please?

（女）麻烦您拼读一下您的姓氏好吗？

It's not just Fleming, these Scottish surnames to indicate Dutch or Flemish ancestry.

不仅仅是弗莱明，这些苏格兰姓氏也表明了荷兰或佛兰德斯血统。

Me, too. Did you know Ferrari is actually a family name?

我也是。你知道法拉利其实是个姓氏吗？

Then we would use the and the plural form of that family name.

我们会使用这个姓氏的复数形式。

I mean, that name Gandhi, Lauren - that's a long family history.

劳伦，甘地这个姓氏有很长的家族史。

Margaret took the name Bourke-White, the last names of her mother and father.

玛格丽特取布尔克-怀特，是她父母的姓氏。

For example, in China, a baby's given name might be chosen to complement family names.

例如，在中国，婴儿的可以用来补充姓氏。

And our real name is d'Urberville! Doesn't that make you proud!

我们的真实姓氏是德伯！这不让你觉得骄傲吗？

The first one is Norman, it's a surname, surnames are always keywords.

第一个是诺曼，这是一个姓氏，姓氏总是关键。