Lucy, a radio producer, had already made clear that she had no intention of changing her name, like a growing number of British women.

露西是一名廣播節(jié)目制作人，跟現(xiàn)在很多的英國女人一樣，早就說明了她不想改變自己的姓氏。 

But she had expected Rory to keep his too.

但她希望羅里也能保留自己的姓氏。

"At first I thought he was joking," she says. "It wouldn't have mattered to me - he's entitled to keep his just as I am entitled to keep mine."

“一開始我以為他在開玩笑，”她說?！皩ξ襾碚f沒什么關系—他有權保留他的姓氏，我也有權保留我的。”

 It did earn him kudos with her friends, though.

不過羅里的行為在她的朋友中迎來了一片叫好聲。

"They said it was really refreshing and really nice."

“他們說這真的很新鮮，很棒！”

While the eight-year-olds took the news of Rory's new name in their stride, there were a few scoffs from the thirty-something men Rory plays football with.

羅里的八歲左右的學生們很快就接受了羅里老師換新姓氏的消息，而羅里平時一起踢足球的幾個三十多歲的男士們卻對他進行了嘲弄。

 "That's weird," said one, casting him a funny look. 

“這太奇怪了，”其中一人說，朝他扮了個鬼臉。

"Modern men," said another, rolling his eyes.

“現(xiàn)代男人呀，”另一個邊說邊翻了個白眼。 

But that was about the extent of the criticism and Rory just shrugged it off.

但批評也就到這種程度，羅里聳聳肩就過去了。

In England and Wales, marriage certificates list only the fathers of the couple getting married. 

在英格蘭和威爾士，結婚證上只列出了結婚夫妻的父親。

There is no mention of the mothers.

卻對母親只字不提。

 Some campaigners argue that the certificates aren't fit for modern times.

有的競選者提出這種證書不適合現(xiàn)代社會。

"It's a huge knock in the eye for mothers," said MP Frank Field, one of a cross-party group of MPs led by Caroline Spelman, which put forward a bill last year to include both parents.

“這對母親們來說是很過分的，”國會議員弗朗克.菲爾德說，他是由卡洛琳.斯佩爾曼領導的一個跨黨派的國會議員們組成的合作組織的一員，該組織去年提交了一份議案希望在證書上列出父母。

In 2014, after legalising same-sex marriage, Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to address "another inequality in marriage which has not changed since the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign." 

在2014年同性婚姻合法化后，首相大衛(wèi).卡梅倫承諾將修正“自從維多利亞女王統(tǒng)治時期以來就一直沒有變過的婚姻中的不平等?！?/p>

MPs then tabled unsuccessful bills in 2015 and 2016.

后來2015年和2016年，國會議員們提交的議案都沒能通過。

The new bill has its second reading next month.

新的議案將于下月開始復審。

It can be a bigger problem, though.

不過這個問題有時會比較嚴重。

 I know of one man whose parents refused to go to the wedding when they learned that their son would be taking his fiancee's surname.

我就認識一個人他的父母聽到他婚后將隨老婆姓之后直接拒絕出席婚禮。

 To them this was incomprehensible and proof that their son was a puppet controlled by his wife-to-be.

對他們來說這完全不可理解，同時也是他已經(jīng)成為了未婚妻的傀儡的證明。

Rachael Robnett, a researcher at the University of Nevada, recently surveyed a cross-section of people in the US and UK and found that a man whose wife keeps her own surname is often viewed as "feminine".

瑞秋.羅伯內(nèi)特，是內(nèi)華達大學的研究員，他最近調查了英國和美國的一些人們發(fā)現(xiàn)，那些老婆保留自己的姓氏的男士常常被看做太娘兒們。

"People gave traits with negative connotations like 'passive' and would say things like, 'She obviously wears the trousers,'" says Robnett.

“人們會產(chǎn)生一些不好的聯(lián)想比如認為這是被迫的，還會說些'她才是當家的，’這種話?！绷_伯內(nèi)特說。

But people also gave more positive descriptors such as "nurturing" and "caring".

但也有人們給出積極的評價比如“貼心”，“體貼”等。

Nonetheless, the signs are that the number of men taking their wife's name is increasing. 

盡管如此，隨老婆姓的男人的數(shù)量正在與日俱增。