Christian name

英 [ˈkrɪstʃən neɪm]

美 [ˈkrɪstʃən neɪm]

n.  (西方人的)圣名，教名，洗礼名

牛津词典

noun

• （西方人的）圣名，教名，洗礼名
  (in Western countries) a name given to sb when they are born or when they are christened ; a personal name, not a family name
  1. We're all on Christian name terms here.
     我们这里所有的人都用教名相互称呼。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 教名;洗礼名
  Some people refer to their first names as theirChristian names.
  1. Despite my attempts to get him to call me by my Christian name he insisted on addressing me as 'Mr Kennedy'.
     虽然我一再让他叫我的教名，可他执意称我为“肯尼迪先生”。

双语例句

• If we receive some meat from a Muslim or a Jew or a Christian, we should not ask about it and we should not ask how it was slaughtered or whether the name of Allah was mentioned over it or not.
  如果我们收到穆斯林或犹太人或基督徒的肉食品，我们不应当问及它的来源，或如何屠宰，或是否以诵念安拉之名而宰。
• It is my Christian name. She'll understand. '
  不是天使的安琪尔；那是我的名字，她会明白的。
• Nowadays, of course, Hans Christian Andersen is a household name.
  现在，汉斯克里斯蒂安安徒生当然是个家喻户晓的名字。
• He was the only boy in the school who was known by his Christian name and not his surname.
  他是学校里唯一一个被称呼洗礼名而不是姓氏的男孩儿。
• My students usually call me by my Christian name.
  我的学生们通常用我的教名称呼我。
• From then on I always used her Christian name. Compliment your partner on his or her clothes.
  从此，我就一直对她以教名相称。找搭档，根据对方的衣服，互相称赞。
• She walked her son, known as J.C. because his middle name is Christian, to school in the morning with a blue plastic bag containing his lunch and a water bottle.
  她早上步行送儿子去上学时，提着一个蓝色塑料袋，里面装着孩子的午餐和一瓶水。因为儿子的中间名是克里斯蒂安（Christian），大家管他叫JC。
• They were on Christian name terms when they were alone.
  他们单独在一起时，以教名相称。
• His name is Peter Smith Peter is his Christian name.
  他叫彼得史密斯彼得是他的名字。
• He attached no definite meaning to the word that I am aware of, but used it, like his own pretended Christian name, to affront mankind, and convey an idea of something savagely damaging.
  我很了解，他说出这话并没有什么确定的含义，就和他瞎说个教名一样，只不过以它冒犯他人的尊严，表达某种恶意伤害的意愿。