叫我以实玛利

Call Me Ishmael

英语人名更加多样化。但宗教色彩不减。《经济学人》的一些同事本周注意到，在美国。人名正日趋多样化。尽管有一家法院特意裁决一名小男孩叫“马丁”而不是叫“弥赛亚”，这一趋势也不太可能停止。在英格兰和威尔士也能看到同样的现象。

English first names are more diverse, but no less religious. As some Economist colleagues have noted this week, the range of first names in the United States is becoming more diverse, and that trend is unlikely to be stopped by a peculiar judicial decision mandating that a little boy should be called Martin rather than Messiah. The same phenomenon can be seen in England and Wales,