英国女孩给中国宝宝取英文名 收入4万英镑！

20160909ou 一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题：英国小姑娘给中国宝宝取英文名 收入50万！ LW: A 16-year old British girl has been earning a lot of money. And I’m not exaggerating here when I say that it is a lot of money doing something that I find ridiculous. WY: In the UK a 16-year old girl, has made almost GBP 50 000 helping people name their babies. This girl came up with the idea after a family visit to China. When they were out having dinner with friends she was asked to give an English name to a new-born baby. In China we name the children based on elements, but this time they want the similarity with how they pick their Chinese name and their English name. What the girl does is she assigns personality traits to each name and lets the people choose the name. She earned a lot. Parents, who want to send their children overseas, want their children to have an English name. LW: I’d still say keep the name. Just a quick search on Google and you should be fine. NL: You would think that. Many Chinese people have tried that and have come up with some rather unfortunate sounding English names. The reason she came up with this is that she came across Chinese people who had called themselves things like Rolex. Or Gandalf or Cinderella [WY: Or Harry Potter]. Which is quite unfortunate if you are trying to be taken seriously in an English speaking country. So this is a service those people could have used. LW: There is a science to this. People say names come in a cycle which is why certain names are more popular than others. There’s a reason people in poorer classes have particular names. Its because names filter down from the top and by the time it starts back up again, people don’t want to give their sons or daughters those names because its ‘trashy’ or whatever. WY: I will have to ask you this. Would you guys like to have a Chinese name? LW: No. WY: For lots of foreigners they would prefer to have a Chinese name. LW: That’s for ease of use; to get around. I used to, when I was a teacher, I used to give my students crazy names. I had a student called Beyonce There was one called Kanye. Presumably they’ll change the names at some point, NL: You should tell them! LW: If they go on Beau’s website they can do that for themselves