原文: I was given the name and yet I was not picked on. I do understand why completely and I'm just stating that it depends on the people who know your son (if he were to have the name) and if they know the meaning of it.
原文: I love Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I would never name a son Giles because he would be teased and called Giles Goat-Boy after the famous book by John Barth.
原文: Fictional bearer: In the YA novel "Incarceron", the main character Finn thinks he's the long-lost Prince Giles (I haven't read the sequel yet so I don't know how this ends).Pronounced with a J sound.
评论人:raevynstar 评论时间: 2014/08/21
翻译文: 我一直认为这是发音用硬的g ...我喜欢这个发音更好的个人。
原文: I always thought it was pronounced with a hard g... I like that pronunciation better personally.
原文: The name of one of the characters in Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Woodlanders', portrayed in the recent film by Rufus Sewell.
评论人:Hero 评论时间: 2006/09/30
翻译文: 托尔金教授在他的故事“农夫吉姆火腿”中使用吉尔斯命名主角。吉尔斯只是名字的“粗俗”形式;农夫的全名是Aegidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo。
原文: Professor Tolkien used Giles to name the main character in his story 'Farmer Giles of Ham'. Giles is but the 'vulgar' form of the name; the farmer's full name was Aegidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo.