卷三 中國家庭姓氏

　　中國漢族人的全名由姓和名。中文姓名的特點是，姓總是在前，名跟在其后，千百年來，父姓一直世代相傳。然而，如今，孩子跟母姓并不罕見。一般來說，名有一個或兩個漢字，通常承載父母對孩子的愿望。從孩子的名字可以推斷出父母希望孩子成為什么樣的人，或者預期他們過什么樣的生活。父母非常重視給孩子取名，因為名字往往會伴隨孩子一生。

　　The full name of a Han Chinese is combined by his or her family name and given name. A feature in Chinese names is that people’s family names often come before their given names. For thousands of years, the father’s family names have been passed down through generations. However, today it is not uncommon to see a child to have his or her mother’s family name. Generally speaking, a given name contains one or two Chinese characters, which shows parents’ good wishes to their child. From a given name, we can infer what kind of person parents expect their child to be, or what kind of life they expect their child to have. Therefore, Chinese parents pay a lot of attention to naming their child because names will accompany the child’s life.

　　1. 難詞翻譯

　　中國漢族人

　　the Han Chinese;(Chinese) Han people; Hanzu

　　姓

　　family name; surname

　　名

　　given name

　　父姓

　　the father’s family name

　　漢字

　　Chinese characters

　　2. 長句斷句

　　中文姓名的特點是，姓總是在前，名跟在其后，// 千百年來，父姓一直世代相傳。

　　A feature in Chinese names is that people’s family names often come before their given names. For thousands of years, the father’s family names have been passed down through generations.