【托福阅读提分】阅读备考必读素材——你的英文名影响职业选择

2015年08月17日14:37 来源：小站整理: 参与（0）阅读（2740）

摘要：在托福阅读的备考过程中，深入理解才是正确答题的关键所在。那么，想要提升托福阅读高分的关键点又在哪里呢？现在就为大家带来托福阅读备考必读素材。

考生在备考托福阅读的时候，会发现有些托阅读题中的用句远远超出了自己的能力范围。对于这些句子，我们需要从语法的角度去完全把握。想要全面提升自己的托福能力，大量的阅读就是一个非常重要的环节。在以下内容中，我们就为大家带来托福阅读素材的双语版，希望能为大家的备考带来帮助。

各位考生都有属于自己的英文名，而根据最近的一项调查，英文名与职业有着密切联系，各位考生是不是都很好奇自己的英文名在哪个职业最多呢?

Alastair is particularly likely to be a journalist. Hannah has agood shot at being a poet. Dalton is more likely than most to sell insurance.

Alastair很有可能是一名记者。Hannah极有可能是一名诗人。Dalton则更有可能是保险销售。

A new analysis from app maker Verdant Labs found the six most uniquenames in 37 different professions. These are the names that are more common inthat line of work than in others.

应用软件制造商VerdantLabs最近的一项分析发现，37种不同职业各有六个独特的名字，这六个名字在某一职业中出现的频率要远高于其他的名字。

In a blog post, developer Mark Edmond explained more about themethodology:

在一篇博文中，软件开发者马克·爱蒙德对这个原则进行了详细解释：

Take Elvis, for example. There aren't all that many Elvises outthere, but a particularly high percentage of them are musicians. As a result,Elvis ranks high among musician names. Elvis isn't the most common name amongmusicians -- that's likely to be John or some other very popular name. What'sinteresting is that it's way more common among musicians than you might expect,given how rare it is. In other words, it's common in that profession relativeto its overall frequency.

以Elvis为例。叫Elvis的人并不多，但是他们当中音乐家特别多。因此，Elvis在音乐家名字中排名靠前。Elvis并非最常见的音乐家名字，可能最常见的还是John等其他流行的名字。有趣的是，考虑到Elvis这个名字本来就不常见，它在音乐家中的常见程度也就可以算是很高了。换句话说，这个名字出现在音乐家中的几率要高于它出现的整体几率。

Some of the findings won't be too surprising: Police officers, racecar drivers, golfers and guitarists are more likely to be men. Social workers,librarians and graphic designers tend to be women.

有些发现在情理之中：警官、赛车手、高尔夫球手和吉他手中男性更多。社工、图书管理员、平面设计师里女性更多。

Some other interesting tidbits: Football coaches are likely to haveone-syllable names such as Rich, Mike or Bill. Songwriters' names harken backto some famous male musicians of the 1960s and 1970s, including Sonny, Mick andBilly. Hebrew names such as Moshe, Meir, and Shlomo are extremely common amongrabbis.

这里还有一些有趣的细节：足球教练经常是起一个音节的名字，比如Rich、Mike或Bill。流行歌曲作者的名字常常是二十世纪六七十年代的著名男音乐家的名字，比如Sonny、Mick和Billy。希伯来语的名字，比如Moshe、Meir或Shlomo在拉比(犹太教经师或神职人员)中极为常见。

“So, do ournames influence where we go in life? Or do the social, geographic, economic andother factors that might have influenced how our parents named us also direct ourcareer paths?” Edmond wrote in the post. “Our hunch is that it’s mostly thelatter, but bear in mind that the connection is subtle.”

爱蒙德在博文中写道，“所以，我们的名字会不会影响今后的人生方向呢?或者说影响父母为我们起名字的社会、地理、经济等其他因素还会继续影响我们的职业道路?直觉告诉我们主要是后者，但是请记住，二者的联系是非常微妙的。”

Here's a searchable list of the names and professions, too: