middle name 的意思
中间名; 个人名字中的一部分; 介于名字和姓氏之间的名称
middle name 的词源
middle name(n.)
“个人名字中介于名字和姓氏之间的部分”,这个词最早出现在1815年,由 middle(中间)和 name(名字)组合而成。作为“某人的显著特征”这一口语表达,则起源于1911年,属于美式英语。
According to Mr. H.A. Hamilton, in his "Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth," the practice of giving children two Christian names was unknown in England before the period of the Stuarts, was rarely adopted down to the time of the Revolution, and never became common until after the Hanoverian family was seated on the throne. "In looking through so many volumes of county records," he says, "I have, of course, seen many thousands and tens of thousands of proper names, belonging to men of all ranks and degrees,—to noblemen, justices, jurymen, witnesses, sureties, innkeepers, hawkers, paupers, vagrants, criminals, and others,—and in no single instance, down to the end of the reign of Anne, have I noticed any person bearing more than one Christian name ...." [Walsh]
根据H.A.汉密尔顿先生在《伊丽莎白女王时代的地方审判记录》中所述,在斯图亚特王朝之前,英国并没有给孩子起两个基督教名字的习惯。这种做法直到革命时期仍然很少见,直到汉诺威王朝登基后才逐渐普及。他说:“在翻阅如此多的县志时,我当然见过成千上万、甚至数万的名字,这些名字来自各个阶层的人——贵族、法官、陪审员、证人、担保人、旅馆老板、叫卖者、穷人、流浪汉、罪犯等等——但直到安妮女王统治结束,我从未发现有任何人使用超过一个基督教名字……”[Walsh]
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