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  People learning Chinese as a foreign language sometimes use software to help them read a text. But when Western names are written using Chinese characters, the result is not always something an average dictionary can help with—the software might give you an inappropriate “analysis” like 沃(wò)=irrigate 兹(zī)=this/now 沃(wò)=irrigate 思(sī)=thought instead of 沃兹沃思(Wòzīwòsī)=Wordsworth. So I found it useful to compile a list of names (focusing on, but not limited to, Western names) and a few other potentially-useful phrases not always found in learners’ software, with examples of how these have been written in Chinese, which we can add to our software to help with our reading.
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  While the primary purpose of this list is to help software recognise a name when it sees one, it’s understandable that some people will also want to use it to ‘look up’ how a specific name “should” be translated. However:
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  1. There is sometimes _more than one_ way that a particular non-Chinese name has been written in Chinese.
 
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  People learning Chinese as a foreign language sometimes use software to help them read a text. But when Western names are written using Chinese characters, the result is not always something an average dictionary can help with—the software might give you an inappropriate “analysis” like 沃(wò)=irrigate 兹(zī)=this/now 沃(wò)=irrigate 思(sī)=thought instead of 沃兹沃思(Wòzīwòsī)=Wordsworth. So I found it useful to compile a list of names (focusing on, but not limited to, Western names) and a few other potentially-useful phrases not always found in learners’ software, with examples of how these have been written in Chinese, which we can add to our software to help with our reading.
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+ 我们学汉语的西方人有时使用电脑软件加拼音和下定义,不过那软件里的词典经常缺乏专名。比如,《沃兹沃思》是个著名诗人的贵姓,英语Wordsworth,但有些学汉语软件看《沃兹沃思》就说: “沃”等于“灌溉”,“兹”等于“这个”,“沃”等于“灌溉”,“思”等于“思想”。电脑不知道“沃兹沃思”是个名字而不需这样分割。所以,我编写一个汉英词典《专名等副刊》让我们的软件看出哪里有英文名的译音和类似不必分割的词语。
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  While the primary purpose of this list is to help software recognise a name when it sees one, it’s understandable that some people will also want to use it to ‘look up’ how a specific name “should” be translated. However:
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  1. There is sometimes _more than one_ way that a particular non-Chinese name has been written in Chinese.