Sheela Banerjee was born in Hayes, West London to parents from the east Indian state of Bengal.

希拉·班纳吉出生在伦敦西部的海耶斯，其父母来自印度东部的孟加拉邦。

Sheela Banerjee's name came out of her parents' journey from British India to West London in the 1950s.

希拉·班纳吉的名字源于她的父母在20世纪50年代从英属印度到伦敦西部之旅。

Wanting to find out more about her culture, Sheela started to pull the threads behind her family story.

为了更多地了解自己的文化，希拉开始深挖其家庭故事背后的线索。

In the 1950s and 1960s, many South Asian families, including Sheela's, migrated west to cities in the UK.

在20世纪50年代和60年代，许多南亚家庭，包括希拉的家庭，向西迁徙到英国的城市。

We'll be hearing about Sheela's research into her name and family history, and, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

我们将听到希拉对其名字和家族史的研究，而且像往常一样，我们还将学习一些有用的新词汇。

Sheela feels her anglicised surname has always been tricky - difficult to use, because of the association with colonialism and oppression.

希拉觉得她的英语化姓氏一直很棘手——很难去使用，因为它与殖民主义和压迫联系在一起。

Sheela's surname is actually pronounced 'Bandyopadhyay' but during colonial times the name became anglicised - it was changed to sound more English.

希拉的姓氏班纳吉实际上发音为班德亚帕德耶，但在殖民时代，这个名字变得英国化了——它听起来更像英国名字。

What Sheela discovered was a story of mass migration – periods in history when large groups of people move from one geographical area to another.

希拉所发现的是一个大规模人口流动的故事——历史上大批人从一个地理区域迁移到另一个地理区域的时期。

She may have had a typical English name, but with dark skin and hair, Sheela didn't look like some people's image of a typical English girl.

她可能有一个典型的英文名字，但有着深色皮肤和头发的希拉看起来并不像一些人印象中的典型英国女孩。

Sheela's family name, Banerjee, reflects her roots in the Bengali culture of East India where surnames tell a lot about a person's social status, or caste.

希拉的姓氏班纳吉反映出她在东印度孟加拉文化中的根源，在那里，姓氏能很大程度反映一个人的社会地位或种姓。

Now, Sheela Turbek of the University of Colorado, in Boulder, has taken matters a step further, by showing that a process called sexual selection plays a role in what is going on.

目前，来自科罗拉多大学(位于博尔德)的席拉·图尔贝克通过展示一种被称为性选择的过程在正在发生的事情中起着作用使得这一说法更进一步。