早在上世纪70年代，他们就对外国人名下的银行账户收取一定费用，实际上是实行负利率。

Back in the 1970s they charged foreigners a fee for having a bank account, in effect imposing a negative interest rate.

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他说：“这种效应不仅是由于名字的长短、听着像不像外国人名，或者多么少见，而是容不容易读出来。”

The effect is not due merely to the length of a name or how foreign-sounding or unusual it is, but rather how easy it is to pronounce, " he said."

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中国的法律法规允许企业使用外国人名(及这些人名的中文译名)作为商标，不过，过去也曾引发了许多跨国纠纷。

Chinese laws and regulations mean businesses are allowed to use foreign names (and their spellings in Chinese characters) as trademarks, but this has caused international problems in the past.

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