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1、智课网 TOEFL备考资料姓氏可影响职业选择一托福阅读机经背景A persons surname can influence their career, experts claimA persons surname can influence their choice of career, experts believe.专家认为，一个人的姓氏会对其职业选择产生影响。Scientists are exploring the theory that people are drawn to certain trades and professions based on the connotatio
2、ns of their surnames.科学家正在探讨的理论是，人们会根据自己姓氏的寓意被特定的行业和职业所吸引。The phenomenon can be observed among famous figures such as the World champion sprinter Usain Bolt or the 18th century poet William Wordsworth.这一现象可以从一些名人身上观察到，如世界短跑冠军尤塞恩博尔特和18世纪的诗人威廉华兹华斯。However, serious research is now being dedicated to th
3、e concept known as nominative determinism to explain why it occurs.不过，科学家现在对这一概念进行了严肃认真的研究来解释为什么会发生这种现象，并称之为“姓名决定论 ”。 New Scientist magazine coined the term after observing that the subject matter of a series of science books and articles bore relevance to the authors surnames.新科学家杂志注意到一系列科学书籍和文章中的主
4、题多和作者的姓氏相关联，从而造出了“姓名决定论 ”一词。John Hoyland, the magazines feedback editor, said: “A reader wrote in to tell me that theyd come across a paper on incontinence in theBritish Journal of Urology which was written by J W Splatt and D Weedon.杂志的反馈报告编辑约翰霍伊兰德说：“一个读者写信到杂志来告诉我，他们在英国泌尿学杂志上看见了一篇有关大小便失禁的论文，作者是J W
5、Splatt(与 溅泼splatter相近)和D Weedon(与撒尿wee相近 )。“I had noticed, as it happens, on the same day in the office, a book on the arctic called Pole Positions: The Polar Regions and the Future of the Planet, by Daniel Snowman.“碰巧的是，就在同一天上班期间，我注意到一本关于北极的书极地位置：极地地区和地球的未来作者是丹尼尔斯诺曼 (雪人)。“These two things went toge
6、ther in my mind and I thought theres something going on here.”“这两件事在脑中叠加在一起，于是我想，这里面一定有什么奥秘。”Research is now being undertaken in search of an explanation for the phenomenon. A paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has concluded that people are disproportionately likely to “choose
7、 careers whose labels resemble their names”.目前科学家正在进行研究，以找到能解释这一现象的答案。一篇发表在个性与社会心理学杂志上的论文得出结论说，有相当多的一部分人倾向于“选择名称和自己名字相近的职业”。The paper entitled Why Susie Sells Seashells by the Seashore: Implicit Egotism and Major Life Decisions cites the disproportionate number of dentists called Denise or Dennis as
8、 an example of the trend.这篇论文题为为什么苏西在海岸边卖海贝：隐含的自我中心和重大的人生决定，其中为了证明这一趋势援引的一个例子是，有相当多的一部分牙医名字叫Denise或Dennis(与“牙医”dentist相近)。Authors Brett Pelham, Matthew Mirenberg and John Jones concluded that the phenomenon occurs because people “prefer things that are connected to the self (for example, the letters in ones name)”.该论文的作者布雷特佩尔汉姆、马修 麦仁伯格和约翰 琼斯得出结论说，发生这一现象是因为人们“偏爱那些和自身 (如自己名字中的字母) 有关的事物”。Vocabulary:come across: 偶然碰到或发现implicit: 内含的;含蓄的egotism: 自我中心相关推荐：多人女性数量不足一托福阅读机经背景 大家带来了办公桌凌乱一托福阅读机经背景办公桌凌乱一托福阅读机经背景多人求婚带动消费一托福阅读机经背景男性比女性更享受购物一托福阅读机经背景相关字搜索： 托福
