信贷公司NetCredit最近对全球姓氏进行了统计，并绘制出“姓氏地图”来显示全球各地哪个姓氏最多。结果显示，在全球主要英语国家中，姓“史密斯（Smith）”的人数最多。
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'Smith' is still the most commonly used surname in every English-speaking country around the globe, a study has found.
一项研究发现，“史密斯”仍然是全球所有英语国家最常用的姓氏。
Lending firm NetCredit has researched the world's most common family names by country by charting its usage in a series of maps.
信贷公司NetCredit研究了各国最常见的姓氏，并将其使用情况绘制在多张地图上。
The maps show that Smith is still the most frequently used surname in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The company also researched the etymology of each name and categorised them.
这些地图显示，史密斯仍然是美国、英国、加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰最常用的姓氏。该公司还研究了每个姓氏的词源，并对其进行了分类。
etymology [ˌetɪˈmɒlədʒi]：n.词源，词源学
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A surname has five possible starting points, according to the study: An occupation, a personal description, the name of a place, the name of an ancestor, or to signify a link to a benefactor.
根据这项研究，姓氏有五个可能的来源：职业、个人描述、地名、祖先的名字，或表示与某个实惠者的联系。
The name 'Smith' originates as an Anglo-Saxon term for a metal worker or blacksmith.
姓氏“史密斯”起源于盎格鲁-撒克逊人对金属工人或铁匠的称呼。
Similarly, the most popular surname in Luxembourg is 'Schmit', which derives from a similar German root.
同样，卢森堡最受欢迎的姓氏是“Schmit”，源于一个类似的德语词。
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In the US, the name is so popular that it's shared by one in every 121 residents.
在美国，这个姓氏非常普遍，每121位居民中就有一位姓史密斯。
