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以前，有一对结婚几年的夫妻，决定生一个孩子，后来就有了一个男孩。他们在给孩子取名的时候却产生了分歧，因为他们两个都不想让孩子用自己的名字。实际上，他们不想用任何人的名字。他们想给孩子取一个从来没有人使用过的名字，于是最终给孩子取名为“怪怪”。 这对夫妇把这个名字告诉医生护士们后，他们全都笑得不行了。但是笑声并没有就此停止，因为怪怪开始上学后，他的名字被人们从一年级嘲笑到毕业。冷嘲热讽从未停止过,可怜的怪怪在嘲笑声中度过了他的大学，直到毕业。 怪怪大学毕业后，开始了他的职业生涯。怪怪以为单位里的同事都是成熟的人了，不会再嘲笑他的名字。但是他错了，嘲笑和戏弄一直伴随着他直到退休。 怪怪退休后，他想自己终于可以摆脱别人对自己名字的嘲笑了，但是他又错了。镇子上的人们见到他的时候，总会说类似的话，嘿，怪怪,你是碰巧姓‘‘怪”的吗？或者，你是那种古怪离群的人吗？之后是一阵大笑。 终于，年迈的怪怪在妻子的陪伴下虚弱无力地躺在临终前的床上，他对妻子说：“我想请你帮个忙,亲爱的。”他妻子问是什么事情。怪怪说道:“你知道，因为我那奇怪的名字，一辈子都在别人各种各样的嘲笑中度过。所以我求你不要让他们在我的墓碑上刻上我的名字,只刻上我的出生日期和去世的日期就行了。甚至连我的姓氏也不要刻上，因为我不想让任何人知道那是我。'’他的妻子勉强答应了他的请求，只在他的墓碑上刻上他的出生日期和去世的日期。 但直到今天,人们走过墓地的时候，看见那块只有两个日期的墓碑，就会问道:“那个墓碑是不是有些怪怪的啊？” Strange Name Once upon a time, after a couple had been married a few years, they decided to have a baby, and they had a baby boy. They were having trouble coming up with a name, because neither of them wanted the baby named after them. In fact, they didn’t want their baby named after anybody. They wanted their baby to have a name that nobody ever had, so they finally agreed to name him “Odd”. After they told the doctor and nurses the name that they had chosen for their baby boy, they all had quite a laugh. But the laughter never stopped, because once little Odd started school, he was teased about his name from the first grade, until he graduated. Still the teasing and laughter continued, poor Odd was teased through out his college years, until he graduated. Once Odd graduated from college, and started his chosen career in life. Odd assumed his colleagues at his work place would be mature enough that he would no longer be teased about his name. But he was wrong, the teasing and laughter went on until Odd finally retired from his career. After Odd had retired, he thought that he’d finally escaped the teasing about his name, but he was wrong again. When people would see him around town, they would say things like, hey Odd, is your last name Ball by chance? Or, are you the odd man out? Then came the laughter. Finally, after Odd had become very old and feeble and lying on his death bed with his wife at his side, he spoke to his wife and said, “I would like to ask you a big favor dear.” His wife asked what that would be. And Odd said, “As you know, I’ve went through all kinds of torment and humiliation all of my life, because of my miserable name. So please don’t let them put my name on my headstone, just the date of my birth, and the date of my passing. Don’t even put my last name on it, because I don't want anybod- y to know that it’s me. ’，His wife reluctantly honored his request, and his headstone only had the date of his birth, and the date of his passing. But till this day, as people are strolling through the cemetery, and see the headstone with the two dates and no name, they say, “Isn’t that odd?” |
