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，美国和分别是以 B 和C字母起头。乔治·布什前任有二十六位（包括其父）均在字母表前半部，而在字母表后半部却仅有十六位。

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.

英文名字听起来鲁滨逊是这个家庭，但是更准确翻译应该是《瑞士鲁滨逊》，因为这是关于一个遭遇海难瑞士家庭故事，就像一个世纪之前小说《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，父系是由男性代代相传。

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。直到一位聪颖博学英国学者托马斯杨发现，一组在石碑上反复出现象形文字代表了一个王室发音—托勒密。

Your surname is perilously close to Yodel.

你很像约德尔。

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.

这位香奈儿设计师更改了自己，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。

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

他阿塔土克意为“土耳其之父”。

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

这个国家很多黑人都用奴隶主。

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，你，以字母表靠后位置字母开头，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，这些苏格兰也表明了荷兰或佛兰德斯血。

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

我也是。你知道法拉利其实是个吗？

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

我们会使用这个复数形式。

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

劳伦，甘地这个有很长家族史。

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

玛格丽特取名布尔克-怀特，是她父母。

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

例如，在中国，婴儿名字可以用来补充。

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

我们真实是德伯！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，是关键字。