外刊阅读：英国的街道名满是脏话？

原文标题：
Street names
Signs of the times
Plans to name Cambridge’s streets are following in a long tradition
Memory Lane
What do street names tell you about Britain?
It is more monarchist but less sexist than you might think, and still changing
[Paragraph 1] ENGLAND’S GROPECUNT LANES are unusual. Not because of their name: in the earthy medieval era, streets were often named after professions—after butchers and bakers and candlewick-makers—so it is unsurprising that the supposedly oldest profession had several streets commemorating it. In Oxford, it squeezed cosily between University College and Oriel; in Shrewsbury, it ran into Fish Street. In London, naturally, there were several.

[Paragraph 2] But what is unusual about these streets is that they have gone. In Oxford, citizens now walk down the more decorous Magpie Lane; in Shrewsbury, one might still enjoy Grope Lane—but on the whole smuttier street names have vanished; Britain has been cleansed of its old-fashioned filth.