你知道为什么他的名字变成了一个动词，意思是“通过激起欲望来戏弄或折磨”吗？
Can you see why his name was changed into a verb meaning "to tease or torment by arousing desire”?
为什么你没用你名字给你儿子中的任何一个命名？
如果用了别名的玫瑰芬芳如故，为什么硬要给它一个难听、10音节、仿佛来自阿斯·泰利·克斯时代的臃肿名字？
If a rose by any other name smells just as sweet, why lumber it with an ugly, 10-syllable mouthful that sounds like a character from Asterix?
多胡扯的一个名字！我想：墨西哥人为什么就不能来个直译呢？
What a rubbish name, I thought: why couldn't Mexicans be given a direct translation?
在56个签署《独立宣言》的人当中，只有一个人所签的名字超过他本人的名字，他来自马里兰州，他在《独立宣言》上签下了‘卡罗尔顿的查尔斯.卡罗尔’，人们问他为什么签下‘卡罗尔顿’，他说，在马里兰有很多叫‘查尔斯.卡罗尔’的，我不想让英国国王为此吊错了一个人。’
And they asked 'Why did you sign "of Carrollton?" And he said 'There are so many Charles Carrolls in Maryland, I didn’t want the king to hang the wrong one.'"
我不知道自己为什么选择了这样一个名字。
可是我不知道外公为什么会有一个女孩子的名字。
But I don't understand why my grandfather had a girl's name.
我在网上搜索昨天漫无目的地时，我突然想到一个主意突然：自本可以发现我的秘密输入我的名字在搜索引擎，为什么我不能这样做，不是吗？
I was searching online aimlessly yesterday when an idea struck me suddenly: since Ben can find out my secret by keying in my name in the search engines, why can't I do so, either?
Literal-Minded（译者注：一个博客的名字）的作者尼尔-惠特曼解释了为什么很多人觉得“培根油煎蛋”是美味早餐的首选，而“培根油加蛋”却让人觉得反胃到底。
Neal Whitman of Literal-Minded explains why "frying eggs in bacon grease" is, for many people, a way to make a delightful breakfast, but "fried eggs in bacon grease" sounds revolting to most.
报纸上做了一个关于捐款的专栏，当记者问到孩子们为什么只写了母亲的名字，他们的回答是，父亲一生中已经获得了很多公共荣誉，而他们希望母亲有完全属于自己的一个。
Their reply is that their Father has received many public honors in his life. The children wanted Mother to have a special recognition of her own.
这位朋友也并不在乎是否有人回答，又问道：“那他们为什么要改掉一个城市的名字呢？”
Undaunted, our friend continued: “And how come they changed the city’s name in the first place?”
为什么上面没有一个亲属的名字？
为什么有有一个新名字？为什么她不被称为“中国水果”？为什么它被称为猕猴桃？那是因为新西兰是种植这种水果的第一个西方国家。
Why is there a new name? Why is it not called a "China fruit"? Why is it called a kiwi fruit? It is because.
迈尔斯很仔细地想了一下，然后说道：这些我都懂，妈妈。可是我不知道外公为什么会有一个女孩子的名字。
Myles thought carefully about this and then said, I know all that, Mom. But I don't understand why my grandfather had a girl's name.
迈尔斯很仔细地想了一下，然后说道：“这些我都懂，妈妈。”可是我不知道外公为什么会有一个女孩子的名字。
Myles thought carefully about this and then said, "I know all that, Mom. But I don't understand why my grandfather had a girl's name".
我觉得今天要写些关于眨眼。为什么？我刚刚在电视上看到一个商业广告(产品名字此处不提及)一个名角色有严重的眨眼问题。
I feel like writing about blinks today. Why? I just saw a commercial on TV (name of product withheld to protect the innocent) starring a character who had a severe blinking problem.
我不解地问朋友，为什么取了＜好闺女＞这样一个名字？
I asked my friend confusedly why he would name this photo as Good Girl.
我们疑惑为什么人们不喜欢在他们的系统中使用普通的对象，我们得到的结论是——普通的对象缺少一个响亮的名字，因此我们给它们起了一个，并且取得了很好的效果。
We wondered why people were so against using regular objects in their systems and concluded that it was because simple objects lacked a fancy name. So we gave them one, and it's caught on very nicely.
你需要从创作过程的角度来论证为什么你要起这样的一个名字。
You should be able to justify why you came up with the name in terms of processes of coinage.
迈尔斯很仔细地想了一下，然后说道：这些我都懂，妈妈。可是我不知道外公为什么会有一个女孩子的名字。
Myles intellection cautiously about this and then said, I understand always that, Mom. But I don't comprehend ground my granddaddy had a girl's appoint.
迈尔斯仔细想了想跟说道：“这些我都懂，妈妈。但是我不明白为什么外公会有一个女孩的名字呢。”
Myles thought carefully about this and then said, "I know all that, Mom. But I don't understand why my grandfather had a girl's name."
这就是他为什么决定叫它雪伦的原因了，他想给他的新宠物起一个漂亮的名字。
That's why he'd decided to call the creature Sharon. He wanted to give a beautiful name to his new pet.
为什么一外名字，甚至不是一个真的名字会让人如此伤感？
How could a name... not even a real name... break your heart? It's her.
为什么一外名字，甚至不是一个真的名字会让人如此伤感？
How could a name... not even a real name... break your heart? It's her.
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