More US Parents Think Beyond Most Popular Names for Babies

    1.heavyweight a.最重量级的

    例句:He rates with the best heavyweight boxers of the pest fifty
          他是50年来最优秀的重量级拳击师之一。

    2.onomastics n.专名学

    3.wholesome a.有益健康的, 合乎卫生的, 健全的, 有益的, 有生气的, 审慎的

    例句:It is a wholesome climate.
          这是有益于健康的气候。

    4.overwhelmingly ad.压倒性地, 不可抵抗地

    例句:The candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man.
          糖果对于吃限定食物的人来说具有无法抗拒的力量。

    5.identify vt.识别, 认为...等同于, 确定, 使参与

    例句:Medical experts will train health care workers to identify and treat patients with the disease.
           医学专家们将训练医护人员,让他们能够够辨别这种疾病,并对患者进行治疗。

    1.People are more and more into finding unusual names. And now since we have the information on the Internet -- at least in the United States -- of what the most popular names are, the percentage of kids who get them actually is going down because people are able to avoid them much more successfully than they did before.

    more and more越来越多

    例句:Peter B. is quite a new act, but it's becoming more and more popular among the teenagers.
          彼特B是一个全新的节目,但是它越来越受十几岁青少年的欢迎。

    much more successfully
    much用来修饰比较级。successfully是多音节词,它的比较级前要用more或者less.

    2.MOTHER: "She's Elizabeth, after Elizabeth Taylor. I think my husband was in love with her."

    in love with相爱,爱上

    例句:Linda is in love with a sailor and Helen is in love with a farmer.
          琳达与一名水手相爱,而海伦与一个农民相爱。

    3.MOTHER: "Elizabeth is named after my grandmother. Daniel is named after Daniel in the Bible. And Zachary sounded wild and fun so we went with it."

    name after按...命名

    例句:We have seriously taken into consideration the principle of giving a name after its master in naming this island.
          对于这个岛的命名,我们认真考虑了名从主人的原则。

    4.Naming expert Cleveland Evans explains that many of these names were traditionally female or male at one time or another.

    at one time or another曾经

    例句:Most of my friends have cheated on tests in school at one time or another.
          我的大多数朋友在学校测验时都作过一两次弊。

    5.In fact, the question happened to arrive just a few days before the pop star died on June twenty-fifth.

    happen to碰巧

    例句:If you happen to be going to the bookshop, please get me a map of the world.
          你上书店的话,捎带给我买张世界地图。

    6.What all this adds up to is a big responsibility for parents to consider what's really in a name.

    add up to合计达

    例句:How much does that add up to?
          那一共是多少?

    在这里是what引导的名词性从句做主语,也就是主语从句。