【新地平线英语】（第二册）人如其名(3/7)

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概述：
        名字是与特定形象相关联的，任何一个被称为“相貌平常的简”或“普普通通的乔”的人都能证明这一点。。。
        Hints:
        Jane
        Joe
        J. S.
        PS:53秒左右有连字符
Note well "approval or disapproval". For better or worse, qualities such as friendliness or reserve, plainness or charm may be suggested by your name and conveyed to other people before they even meet you.
Names become attached to specific images, as anyone who's been called "a plain Jane" or "just an average Joe" can show. The latter name particularly bothers me since my name is Joe, which some think makes me more qualified to be a baseball player than, say, an art critic. Yet, despite this disadvantage, I did manage to become an art critic for a time. Even so, one prominent magazine consistently refused to print "Joe" in my by-line, using my first initials, J. S., instead.请好好注意这几个词：“嘉许或不赞成”。不管是好是坏，诸如友好或拘谨、相貌平平或漂亮妩媚等特征已经在你的名字中有所暗示，甚至他人在见到你本人之前就已经知道你的这些特征了。
名字是与特定形象相关联的，任何一个被称为“相貌平常的简”或“普普通通的乔”的人都能证明这一点。后面的那个名字特别使我烦恼，因为我也叫乔。有些人认为这个名字使我更适合于做一名棒球运动员而不是别的什么职业，比如说艺术评论家。然而，尽管有此局限，我确实曾一度设法成为了一名艺术评论家。即便如此，一家著名杂志一直拒绝把“乔”作为我的文章署名，而是用我名字的首字母J. S.来代替。