课文翻译

　　1. Read and say朗读，说

　　DAVID：Hi, Jim! What are you doing?

　　戴维：嗨，吉姆，你干什么呢?

　　JIM：Mr Wu wants me to give a talk in class tomorrow.

　　吉姆：吴老师想让我在明天的课上作一个报告。

　　DAVID：A talk? About what?

　　戴维：作一个报告?关于哪方面的?

　　JIM：I am thinking about what to say. Do you have any good ideas?

　　吉姆：我正在考虑该说什么，你有什么好主意吗?

　　DAVID：Oh, well, let me think. Why don't you talk about names?

　　戴维：噢，让我想想。你为什么不谈谈关于名字的话题呢?

　　JIM：Names?

　　吉姆：名字?

　　DAVID：Yeah, talk about the difference between Chinese and English names.

　　戴维：是的，谈一谈中国名字和英国名字的区别。

　　JIM：That's a good idea. Thanks.

　　吉姆：好主意!谢谢!

　　2. Read阅读

　　WHAT's IN A NAME?

　　名字是怎样组成的?

　　A lot of English people have three names: a first name, a middle name

　　很多英国人的名字由三部分构成：名、中间名、

　　and a family name. Their family name comes last. For example, my full name

　　和姓。他们把姓放在最后。例如，我的全名

　　is James Allan Green. Green is my family name. I have two given names. My

　　是詹姆斯-艾伦-格林。格林是我的姓。我有两个名字。我

　　first name is James, and my middle name is Allan. To many people, the meaning

　　的名字是詹姆斯，我的中间名是艾伦。对于很多人来说，名

　　of a name is important. My name is James. James means“daiti”,and

　　字的意思是非常重要的。我的名字是詹姆斯。詹姆斯意思是“daiti”，

　　Allan means hexie。

　　艾伦意思是“hexie”。

　　People don't use their middle names very much. So“John Henry Brown”

　　人们不常使用他们的中间名字。所以“约翰-亨利-布朗”

　　is usually“John Brown”. People also don't use Mr, Mrs, Ms or Miss before

　　通常称为“约翰-布朗”。人们也不把“先生、太太、女士、小姐”放在他们

　　their first names. They usually use them with their last names. We can say

　　的名字前，这些称呼通常和姓连用。我们可以

　　John Brown or Mr Brown, but we can never say Mr John.

　　说约翰-布朗或布朗先生，可我们从不说约翰先生。

　　I think this is different from Chinese names. In China, the first name is the

　　我想这和中国名字不同。在中国，姓在前

　　family name and the last name is the given name. For example,“Zhou Jian”

　　名在后。例如，“周建”

　　puts his family name“Zhou”before his given name“Jian”.

　　把姓“周”放在名“建”的前面。

　　Why do people call me Jim? My name is James, but Jim is short for James.

　　为什么人们叫我吉姆?我叫詹姆斯，可是吉姆是詹姆斯的简称。

　　So just call me Jim!

　　所以就叫我吉姆吧!