The news, which was later confirmed by Zhang Chi, Yao's spokesman in Shanghai, triggered a barrage of baby names on the Internet, as well as predictions about its height, gender and nationality.

晚些时候，姚明的发言人张弛在上海证实了这一消息，这也引发了网络上对于宝宝名字的激烈讨论，随之而来的是人们关于宝宝身高，性别以及国籍的种种猜测。

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The sizes of the artists' names indicate how popular they are, while their position shows the gender mix and average age of their listeners.

图中歌手艺人名字的字体大小显示他们的受欢迎程度，而他们所在的位置则显示粉丝们的性别混合指数和平均年龄指数。

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One of these, a research probe named Eve (all of the robot names are acronyms as well as indicators of theoretical gender) drops to Earth and wins Wall-E's heart.

一个叫做伊夫的研究探查机器人(所有机器人的姓名均为缩写，性别均由仪表显示)，降临地球，令瓦力动心。

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"For a couple hundred years we've had names which have switched gender but they almost always switch from male to female.

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In two months Pepsi picked up the names, ages, gender, addresses and consumption levels of 2 million people.

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Adam names the animals and notices their gender bifurcation and sees that he is incomplete.

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The idea has been popular with some top names in the legal profession, who are keen to see the gender imbalance redressed.

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