它們還是"名字"嗎?

如同“陳世美”在中文里就是“負心郎”的代名詞，美國俚語中大量的表達方式中也涉及了名字。由于政治，歷史，宗教，文化，日常生活的原因，姓名演義在英文交流中的應用既頻繁又生動。現小舉幾例如下：

1．We can pay you $300 a week, minus 10% for Uncle Sam of course.
　　Uncle Sam: 美國政府。

2．When Nancy was younger, she was a plain Jane; now she was a really Betty.
　　plain Jane：相貌平常的女子，Betty: 美女。那么一般普通的男子呢？Plain Joe.

3．I’m sorry I can’t go play basketball with you because I got a charley horse on my leg.
　　charley horse：（腳，腿）抽痙。

4．My father bought me a Lazy Susan for the dining room table. Now we can reach the salt and pepper without asking.
　　Lazy Susan： 餐桌上的轉盤

5．We have a John Doe in the hotel. He has no ID card and has lost his memory.
　　John Doe：沒有身份的人，失憶的人

6．I feel so sad after I receive the Dear John letter from my girlfriend.
　　Dear John letter： 絕交信

7．Nature calls and I have to go find a john.
　　John： 廁所

8．She’s sluttish as a hooker and doesn’t stop trying to find a john for herself.
　　John： 嫖客。這句話的意思是：她賤得如同一個妓女，好象就想給自己找個嫖客。

9．I ate too many potato chips; I think I’m going to Ralph.
　　Ralph： 嘔吐。

10．I need your John Hancock on this form.
　　John Hancock： 簽字。

11.Susan called the police because she saw a Peeping Tom in her garden.
　　Peeping Tom：有偷窺癥的人

12.Mike is a real Doubting Tom that he just doesn’t anything I told him.
　　Doubting Tom： 多疑的人，好懷疑的人。

13.She thought her husband had a lover, so she hired a private dick to follow him.
　　private dick： 私人偵探

14.She deserves a good spanking on the fanny.
　　Fanny： 臀部，屁股

15.Shit! My fridge’s on the fritz again.
　　on the fritz，fritz out: （物品）爛了，壞了

16.I thought Lily should break up with his boyfriend because he was a real Don Joan and went out with several other women the same time.
　　Don Joan： 唐璜，風流男子

　　此外諸如Achilles" heel（致命弱點），Narcissism（自戀癖）, Trojan（勤勞的人）, Cinderella（丑小鴨）….. 等來自與神話傳說或小說故事的姓名演義更是比比皆是。若能在與“Native English Speaker” 實際交流中加以巧妙運用，無疑會讓讓你的口語增色不少。