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What do you call your partner - darling, sweetheart, babe? I have been called a little owl, a swan and even a “panda-fish.” No, I’m not a supernatural, shape-shifting creature or a character in a children’s storybook. I’ve just been in a few relationships where cutesy, affectionate nicknames emerged as inside jokes. 你是如何称呼你的伴侣的？亲爱的，甜心，宝贝？我曾获得过小猫头鹰，小天鹅，甚至“熊猫鱼儿”这样的爱称。然而我并不是超自然生物，也不是异形怪或童话里的角色。我只不过谈过几次恋爱，这些可爱，亲昵的称呼成为了恋人之间的小玩笑。 Turns out, there are many more inventive terms of endearment used around the world, including 'egg with eyes', 'my little cabbage' and 'cute nose'. 其实，在世界各地人们有许多更富创意的爱称用语，包括“长眼睛的小鸡蛋”，“我的小包菜”，“可爱的小鼻鼻”。 Plenty of my friends have developed nicknames with their romantic partners. I asked the question on Facebook and got a broad assortment of answers: former boyfriends who knew each other as “Tiger and Teddy.” An American man who dated a Chinese woman told me he called her “Popo,”,which means “wife” or “broken broken,” depending on your intonation – and she called him “Benben,” which he says means something like “dumb dumb,” referring to his lackluster mastery of the Chinese language at the time. | 
