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FOR YEARS, people have been naming their pets—and their kids, in some cases—after pop icons they love.
多年來，人們一直用喜歡的流行偶像的名字來給他們的寵物和孩子取名。
In 2016, 370 people in the United States named their baby girls Khaleesi in honor of a Game of Thrones character.
2016年，為了紀念《權力的游戲》中的一個角色，370名美國人給他們的女兒取名為卡麗熙。
Scientists, too, are constantly naming newly discovered species after celebs.
科學家們也在不斷地用名人的名字來命名新發現的物種。
But these names might carry a little bit more weight:
但這些名字可能更有分量：
While a baby named Khaleesi can get older and decide to legally change her name,
當一位名叫卡麗熙的嬰兒長大后決定合法更改名字時，
scientific names go down in the history books.
卡麗熙的學名載入史冊。
There's the Agra schwarzeneggeri beetle, named after Arnold Schwarzenegger's biceps;
一種名叫阿格拉·施瓦辛格甲蟲以阿諾德·施瓦辛格的肱二頭肌命名;
the Aleiodes shakirae wasp, named after Shakira's hip and belly dance movements; and the list goes on.
脊繭蜂屬夏奇拉黃蜂以夏奇拉的臀部和腹部舞蹈動作命名；這樣的例子不勝枚舉。
Turns out, there is a method to this seemingly mad nomenclature.
事實證明，這種看似瘋狂的命名法有一些作用。
Sometimes having a recognizable name attached to what might otherwise be an unremarkable little creature is the only way for the species to get widespread attention.
有時候，給一個不起眼的小生物起一個人們都知道的名字，是該物種獲得廣泛關注的唯一途徑。
The latest case in point: In September 2017, researchers announced the discovery of 15 new species of spiders in the Caribbean.
最新的例子是：2017年9月，研究人員宣布在加勒比地區發現了15種新型蜘蛛。
They named three of them after Leonardo DiCaprio, David Bowie, and Michelle Obama.
這些蜘蛛中有三個命名為萊昂納多·迪卡普里奧、大衛·鮑伊和米歇爾·奧巴馬。
Spider expert Ingi Agnarsson is an associate professor of biology at the University of Vermont
蜘蛛專家Agnarsson 是佛蒙特大學生物學副教授
and was the lead researcher of the Caribbean study, published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
和加勒比海研究的首席研究員，他在林奈學會的動物學雜志上發表了這篇文章。
