偉大的劇作家莎士比亞曾經(jīng)說過這樣一句話：“What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell and sweet”，亦即“名字有什么關(guān)系？把玫瑰花叫做別的名字，它還是照樣芳香?！泵峙c其所指事物間究竟有無聯(lián)系一直是語言學(xué)家研究的內(nèi)容。不過，美國(guó)的一項(xiàng)最新研究告訴我們：名字的確能透露出不少信息。比如，許多美國(guó)姓氏與種族背景相關(guān)。姓華盛頓的人中，近九成是黑人，姓杰斐遜的人當(dāng)中，有75％是黑人。
美國(guó)人口普查局新近公布了分析2000年普查數(shù)據(jù)得出的美國(guó)姓氏排行榜。研究人員從對(duì)2.7億人的調(diào)查中發(fā)現(xiàn)了600萬個(gè)不同姓氏，姓氏中最常見的是“史密斯”，超過200萬的人都擁有此姓氏。其它常見姓氏包括約翰遜、威廉斯、布朗、瓊斯、米勒和戴維斯。
此外，兩個(gè)西班牙語裔的姓氏——加西亞和羅德里格斯首度闖入美國(guó)前十大姓氏榜中，說明西語裔姓氏人口在美國(guó)迅速成長(zhǎng)。
請(qǐng)看下面的這段新聞報(bào)道：
The English poet and playwright William Shakespeare asked "What's in a name?" The United States government has an answer.
The United States Census Bureau has released a report about family names. The information comes from the study of the American population in two thousand.
The report tells the most common last names of Americans and some information linked to them. It says people recognize others by their names, and that people can tell a lot about a person just from knowing his or her name.
Almost two hundred seventy million people provided information to the Census Bureau in two thousand. The researchers found six million different last names among them. One million or more people have one of seven names. The most common is Smith. More than two million people answer to that name.
The next most common names are Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller and Davis. More than one million people are called each of those names. Two hundred sixty-eight other family names are also fairly common. Each of those names is shared by more than one hundred thousand people.
The study also found that for the first time, two Hispanic names are among the top ten most common names in the country. They are Garcia and Rodriguez. Each name is shared by more than eight hundred thousand people. The report says more than ninety percent of all people with those names are Hispanic.
One newspaper report says it is probably the first time that any non-English sounding name has been listed among the most common. The presence of those names on the list shows that an increasing number of Hispanic people are living in the United States. The number grew by fifty-eight percent in the nineteen nineties to almost thirteen percent of the population.
Other Hispanic names appearing in the top twenty-five most common names are Martinez, Hernandez, Lopez and Gonzalez.
美國(guó)人口普查局新近公布了分析2000年普查數(shù)據(jù)得出的美國(guó)姓氏排行榜。研究人員從對(duì)2.7億人的調(diào)查中發(fā)現(xiàn)了600萬個(gè)不同姓氏，姓氏中最常見的是“史密斯”，超過200萬的人都擁有此姓氏。其它常見姓氏包括約翰遜、威廉斯、布朗、瓊斯、米勒和戴維斯。
此外，兩個(gè)西班牙語裔的姓氏——加西亞和羅德里格斯首度闖入美國(guó)前十大姓氏榜中，說明西語裔姓氏人口在美國(guó)迅速成長(zhǎng)。
請(qǐng)看下面的這段新聞報(bào)道：
The English poet and playwright William Shakespeare asked "What's in a name?" The United States government has an answer.
The United States Census Bureau has released a report about family names. The information comes from the study of the American population in two thousand.
The report tells the most common last names of Americans and some information linked to them. It says people recognize others by their names, and that people can tell a lot about a person just from knowing his or her name.
Almost two hundred seventy million people provided information to the Census Bureau in two thousand. The researchers found six million different last names among them. One million or more people have one of seven names. The most common is Smith. More than two million people answer to that name.
The next most common names are Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller and Davis. More than one million people are called each of those names. Two hundred sixty-eight other family names are also fairly common. Each of those names is shared by more than one hundred thousand people.
The study also found that for the first time, two Hispanic names are among the top ten most common names in the country. They are Garcia and Rodriguez. Each name is shared by more than eight hundred thousand people. The report says more than ninety percent of all people with those names are Hispanic.
One newspaper report says it is probably the first time that any non-English sounding name has been listed among the most common. The presence of those names on the list shows that an increasing number of Hispanic people are living in the United States. The number grew by fifty-eight percent in the nineteen nineties to almost thirteen percent of the population.
Other Hispanic names appearing in the top twenty-five most common names are Martinez, Hernandez, Lopez and Gonzalez.