Notice how one of the steps—adding a middle name—is marked as optional.
注意其中一个步骤 —添加中间名字 —是如何被标记为可选的。
Steven: I'm not sure what she wants as a middle name. We haven't decided yet.
史蒂文：我不知道她想给孩子起什么中间名，我们还没有决定。
We ended up settling on both, giving him one for a middle name and one as a Hebrew name, a Jewish tradition.
（最后我们两个都用上了，一个作为中间名，另一个按照犹太传统作为希伯来名。）
Steven: I'm not sure what she wants as a middle name. We haven't decided yet. Well, Connie, we've been too busy.
史蒂文：我不知道她想给孩子起什么中间名，我们还没有决定。哎呀，康妮，我们太忙了。
While I plan to keep Peterson as a middle name (an occurrence that is quickly replacing the hyphenate), it is simply not the same.
尽管我打算把Peterson留作中间名(这一方式将很快取代连字符)，但这并不是一回事。
他有中间名字吗？
I'm not sure what she wants as a middle name. We haven't decided yet.
我不知道她想给孩子起什么中间名，我们还没有决定。
Some American women use their former last name as a middle name after they marry.
也有些美国妇女用她们结婚前使用的姓作为中间名。
They also may use both names without the hyphen, using their family name as a middle name.
这些姓之间也可不用连字符，而是把娘家姓当作中间名。
I helped Daddy to dress Thomas. Then I realized he can't have Emma as a middle name, because he's a boy. I didn't know that yesterday.
我帮爸爸给汤姆斯穿衣服，然后我才意识到他的中间名字不能叫艾玛，因为他是个男孩。昨天时我还不知道呢。
I helped Daddy to dress Thomas. Then I realized he can't have Emma as a middle name, because he's a boy. I didn't know that yesterday.
我帮爸爸给汤姆斯穿衣服，然后我才意识到他的中间名字不能叫艾玛，因为他是个男孩。昨天时我还不知道呢。
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