-
人人都知道写电子邮件地址的时候，
要加一个
@
字符，
把用户名和邮件服务提供商的名字分
开。关于
@
的起源，说法不一。它的读法就更加是五花八门
，而且不乏有趣的联想哦！
What do you call the @ symbol used in
e-mail addresses?
That
little
referred to as the
“at” symbol.
Surprisingly though, there is no
official, universal name for this sign. There are
dozens of strange
terms to describe the
@ symbol.
Several languages use words
that associate the shape of the symbol with some
type of animal.
一些语言根据
@
的形状对它进行了有趣的描述：
For instance, some quirky names for the
@ symbol include
（看看这些语言丰富的想象力，它们
认为
@
像什么呢？）
:
apenstaartje -
Dutch for “monkey’s tail”
snabel -
Danish
for “elephant’s trunk”
kissanhnta -
Finnish for
“cat’s tail”
klammeraffe -
German for
“hanging monkey”
papaki -
Greek for “little
duck”
kukac -
Hungarian for “worm”
dalphaengi -
Korean for “snail”
grisehale -
Norwegian for “pig’s tail”
sobachka -
Russian for “little dog”
Before it became the
standard symbol for electronic mail, the @ symbol
was used to represent
the cost or
weight of something. For instance, if you
purchased 6 apples, you might write it as 6
apples @ $$1.10 each.
（
@
被应用于邮件地址之前，它是价钱或者重量的计量符号。
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With the
introduction of e-mail came the popularity of the
@ symbol. The @ sy
mbol or the “at
sign”
separates
a
person’s
online
user
name
from
his
mail
server
address.
For
instance,
joe@.
Its
widespread
use
on
the
Internet
made
it
necessary
to
put
this
symbol on keyboards in
other countries that have never seen or used the
symbol before. As a
result, there is
really no official name for this symbol.
（现在的邮件地址中，我们用
@
把用
户
名和邮件服务提供商的名字分开。
）