The Negroes, when they came from Africa, had nothing corresponding to a family name.

黑人从非洲来的时候根本没有相当于姓的东西。

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The single and double name: One word named after the addition of a Chinese family name, two words after the addition of a family name.

起单双名：单字起名为姓氏后增加一个汉字，双字名为姓氏后面增加两个汉字。

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Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not to the first, had the family once had its home in the ancient village of that name.

即使辛普森这样的名字也可能属于最后一类，而不是第一类，如果这个家族曾经在同名的古老村庄里有自己的家的话。

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Other times,the child may take on both names as a family name.

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That is to say, the first family of Florence, and lived to see them deposed by a Dominican friar by the name of Savonarola.

也就是佛罗伦萨第一家庭，并在有生之年,目睹他们被一位,名为，Savonarola，的道明会修士所驱逐。

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In some cases the child takes the mother's surname as a middle name and the father's name as the family name.

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None of them is really a family name, since Javanese seldom use them.

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Some people justify the decision to have children on the ground that they are perpetuating a family name or a genetic line.

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But one theory circulating in Southall was that Mr Purewal was murdered by a hitman hired by a family whose name had been disgraced by the naming of their daughter as a rape victim.

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