1·Sorry I misspelled your last name.
对不起，我把你的姓拼错了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.
该项研究的一次实验中，研究人员向受试者简要描述了一名来自芝加哥、姓威廉姆斯的男子。
3·Thanks, Mom and Pop! (Although, this writer's last name didn't help.)
谢谢你们，妈妈和爸爸! (尽管这个作家的姓还是不怎么地。)
4·People outside IBM can search for IBM employee contact information as long as they know the employee's last name and country location.
IBM 以外的人员可以搜索 IBM 雇员的联系信息，只要他们知道员工的姓和国家位置。
5·When my boyfriend proposed I had a rogue thought that I never imagined could infiltrate my brain: I want to take his last name.
当男友求婚时，我脑袋里蹦出一个邪恶的念头，这是我从来不曾想过的：我想改成他的姓。
1·My husband, with his very American last name, accompanied me.
我的丈夫有着非常美国式的姓氏，他陪在我身边。
2·The Swiss tend to be formal and address each other by last name.
瑞士人一般比较正式，会称呼对方的姓氏。
3·Carol is African American and probably about my age; she wouldn't tell me her last name.
卡洛尔是非洲裔美国人，年龄或许跟我差不多；她没有告诉我她的姓氏。
4·By looking at the "Console" window in Figure 14, you can confirm that the mapping code is working properly, as the change to the employee last name is correctly persisted to the database.
通过查看图14中的“控制台”窗口，可以确认映射代码工作正常，因为对职员姓氏的修改已经正确地持久化到了数据库中。
5·Then specific information such as the traveler's last name and date of travel would be used to uniquely identify the right instance of the travel reservation process.
因此，例如旅行者的姓氏以及旅行日期这样特定的信息就能够用来唯一确定旅行预定流程的正确实例。