GIRL'S NAME

When our daughter was born, we named her Myles after my beloved late (1) father, despite family warnings that the name was too masculine (2).



Years later, when I felt she was old enough to understand, I explained to Myles, "Your name is very special .I named you after my own father (3) because I loved him very much .I know he would be proud of you."



Myles though carefully about this and then said, "I know all that, Mom .But I don't understand why my grandfather had a girl's name."



女儿出生时，我们不顾家人提醒说"迈尔斯"这个名字太男性化了，给她取了迈尔斯，和我深爱的已故父亲同名。



几年后，我觉得迈尔斯已经长大，能够懂事了，便对她解释说："你的名字很特别。我给你起了个和我爸爸同样的名字，因为我非常爱他。我相信他会为你而深感骄傲的。"



迈尔斯认真地想了一会，然后说："妈妈，这些我都懂，可我不明白外公怎么会有个女孩子的名字。"



注释：

1： late 已故：前任的

2： masculine 男子气的：有男子特性或外观的

3： name A after B 以B的名字来命名A
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