希普曼解释说,雨刷是安全项目,法律规定在福特同卡恩斯签署协议前,需解密全部工程。
Wipers were a safety item, Shipman explained, and the law required disclosure of all the engineering before Ford could give Kearns a contract.
因此,职业、昵称、家乡和父亲的名字就用来当作姓氏——例如,富勒特彻和史密夫,利德·希特和斯福特,格林和皮克灵,威肯斯和约翰逊。
So trades, nicknames, places of origin, and fathers' names became fixed surnames - names such as Fletcher and Smith, Redhead and Swift, Green and Pickering, Wilkins and Johnson.
最终,福特主管罗杰·希普曼宣布卡恩斯的雨刷力斩群雄,赢得了竞争。
Finally, Roger Shipman, a Ford supervisor, announced to Kearns that he had "won the wiper competition."
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