Chapter 529: My Name Is John
The Mercedes-Benz E-Class did not move in half an hour, and Zhuo Yang and CoCo kissed in the car. Phillips Chapman sat in the back kitchen chair with a sad face: I have to come back in the evening, and I have to come in and out at any time for three months, alas, how can I be so unlucky!
The car finally moved, and Zhuo Yang took CoCo and headed straight for the outskirts of Hanover. He has been here for four years, and there are few picturesque places, Zhuo Yang simply doesn't know too well. Today he is going to take CoCo to Lake Herpostthorne, not far from the Heinhausen wetlands, Herbst Sonne, German, autumn sun.
"Zhuo Yang, can I give one of my phone to Staqian?"
"Of course, give it to her, and I'll buy you another one."
Zhuo Yang brought two Huawei mobile phones to CoCo from China, and the European version of the ultra-large capacity battery. I can't afford to make porridge on my own phone, and CoCo must be too. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and only with good equipment can you cook a good pot of porridge.
There are two rooms in the women's dormitory of the Keysman School of Business, Stacy is CoCo's roommate and best friend, and even a CoCo fan, who has a crush on a man, only Stacy knows, CoCo has finally achieved a positive result, and Stacy is also the first person to know. Today and in the future, Stacy volunteered to cover up for CoCo, and would come back with two portions for lunch and then steal one for pouring.
Such a wonderful person, Zhuo Yang and CoCo must be maintained, and there are still many places to use others. Thinking about it this way, Zhuo Yang plans to give a Huawei to the fat chef as well.
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After a pleasant and comfortable play, the two of them had lunch in a quiet German-style local restaurant, but in fact, she regretted that she couldn't climb over the wall. A princess in love, wild.
"Zhuo Yang, do you have an English name?" Zhuo Yang sat on the bench on the porch, leaning against the corner pillar, and CoCo leaning against his arms. With the Eiffel Mountains visible in the distance, the air today is as clean as washed water.
"My English name is Zhuo Yang, Zhuo, Zhuo Yang." He replied.
In fact, Zhuo Yang used to have a special English name, like every elementary school student.
When I was in the third grade, I had an English course. The English teacher will ask each student to give themselves an English name, as if they can't learn English well. Zhuo Yang was staring at the TV after dinner and practicing the piano, and suddenly remembered that tomorrow the teacher would ask for everyone's English name and the name card that he made.
happened to be playing the animated blockbuster "The Lion King" that he liked to watch very much, so he gave himself the English name Simba (Simba), and Leo's Zhuo Yang became the Lion King.
And when Zhuo Yang's sister Zhuo Qiu was in the third grade, she also gave herself an English name. My sister said, I call it autumn in Chinese, and spring in English, so she became Spring in English class.
There is another interesting thing about the English name.
Not every third-grade elementary school student is like Zhuo Yang and his sister, who will give themselves English names because of their family background, and not all parents are as English accessible as Zhuo Tongtong and Yang Hong. At that time, the vast majority of parents didn't even know the English alphabet, so the teacher would give these students who didn't know how to call each other a common English name, and a boy in the same class as Zhuo Yang was given Mike, a very common and standard English name.
However, Mike's dad was reluctant, and the next day he rushed to the school in a rage, strongly dissatisfied with the teacher and questioned the teacher.
Mike's father is a master blacksmith at the state-owned railway parts factory, and a few years ago he came out of the rural areas of Qianxian County to take over the retirement class of Mike's grandfather. Succession was the personnel tradition of state-owned enterprises in that era, and the son inherited his father's business.
'Mike' is 'Maike', and many people in North China and Northwest China should know the word Maike. Every spring when the wheat is ripe and harvested, due to the difference in geography and climate, the wheat will come to the harvest time from east to west in northern China. At this time of the year, a large number of peasant uncles from Gansu and Shaanxi set off with sickles and covers on their backs.
The harvesting army started from the Shandong Peninsula and sweated like rain along the railways and highways from county to county, wielding sickles from Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, all the way to the west, helping the farmers who did not have strong labor to harvest the crops, and also to earn a little money for food and clothing for the parents, wives and children at home.
In this way, when they traveled thousands of miles to the west to harvest and returned to their hometown, the full ears of wheat in their fields also happened to bend the waist of the wheat stalks, and what awaited them was the longing of their fathers and mothers, the cheers of their children, and the noodles rolled out by their mothers-in-law.
Industrious and brave Chinese peasants!
Later, with the advent of mechanized harvesting and the wave of migrant workers in the city, the phenomenon of "Maike" gradually disappeared in the long history of social development, but the name "Maike" still remains in people's memory for a long time.
Compared with McKe, 'Mike' and his father are undoubtedly happy, he has a stable salary income that guarantees income from drought and flood, and he has become a city man after the farmer turned into a non-farmer, and his identity has become decent.
And so—
"I worked hard to bring my wife and baby out of the countryside, but I didn't want to live a hard life anymore, and I just didn't want the baby to be a wheat customer anymore. But you still have to call my baby a microphone, what do you mean? What do you have in mind? If you don't understand, I'll go to the principal! ”
The young English teacher couldn't cry or laugh, so he hurriedly replaced 'Mike' with 'Jack', and simply didn't want any 'gram', and called 'David' to calm the anger of David's father.
It's a long way off.
Westerners generally do not pronounce Chinese names accurately, especially the upturned tongue and curly tongue sounds are more difficult to pronounce accurately than eating. Many Chinese and Chinese living in Europe all year round in order to follow the local customs, but also really can't hear their good Chinese name being trampled in the mouth of foreigners, so they will give themselves an English name or English nickname to interact with others and facilitate integration into local society.
For example, Sun Yumei's nickname is Rose, which comes from the 'rose' in his Chinese name. The old stone that opened a restaurant in Milan is called 'Stani', and 'Stone' originally means stone.
And Zhuo Yang's English name in Europe is Zhuo or Zhuo Yang.
Europeans, especially Germans, can't pronounce the standard sound of 'Zhuo' on their big tongues, and their pronunciation of 'Zhuoyang' sounds more like 'Bright Sun'. Therefore, when they say 'Zhuo', they are actually saying 'John', and when they say 'Zhuo Yang', they are actually saying 'John· Young’。
'John' is 'John' and 'Young' is 'Young'.
After six years in Europe, some foreigners called him 'Zhuo' and some 'Zhuo Yang', and everyone came like this, which has become the consensus and official standard of the world. Thus, Zhuo Yang became John and John Young. The name is like China's Wang Hui or Zhang Jun, but it can be regarded as a relationship with the people of the West.
"John, give me a Chinese name." CoCo leaned into Zhuo Yang's arms and played with his fingers as he spoke.
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