Then the government created a second such institution called --and they gave it a boy's name with a nickname, boy's name--Freddie Mac.

之后政府成立了第二个类似机构,他们给它起了个男孩名字,一个昵称,叫做房地美

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People on Wall Street found that difficult to say -Federal National Mortgage Corporation- so they nicknamed it Fannie Mae; it sounds like a woman's name.

华尔街的人觉得这名字很拗口,联邦,国民,抵押,贷款,协会,所以给它起了个昵称,房利美,这听起来像个女性名字

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Somewhere around 200,suppose that my friends give me a nickname.

大约200岁时，我的朋友们给了我一个昵称。

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