More than 100 Taiwanese people changed their name to “Salmon” in order to take advantage of a sushi restaurant’s promotion. Under the two-day promotion, any customer whose ID card contained “gui yu” – the Chinese characters for salmon – could eat an all-you-can-eat sushi meal along with five friends for free.
But Taiwanese officials were not amused. A Taiwanese official has pleaded with people to stop and said it not only wastes time but causes unnecessary paperwork.
Taiwan allows people to officially change their name up to three times.
友善讓你懂｜解說：
迴轉壽司業者推出促銷新招，只要名字裡面有「鮭魚」，就可以帶五位朋友免費壽司吃到飽。原先被認為是太困難達成的標準，想不到卻吸引了上百位台灣人前往戶政事務所改名，有人甚至把名字放上各種海鮮名稱，總共長達36個字。
網友戲稱這是鮭魚之亂，但政府官員就不覺得有趣了，有人批評這是浪費社會資源，貪小便宜且徒增戶政人員麻煩。法規規定一個人一輩子只能改三次名字，且改過的名字都會註記。可別為了一頓飯，讓自己終身都被叫做鮭魚了！
輕鬆帶著走｜學習：
Take advantage of 就是「利用、佔便宜」，但意思不一定是負面的
- I don’t want her to think we’re taking advantage of her. 我不想要她認為我們只是在佔她便宜。
- He took advantage of the good weather to go for a walk. 他趁著天氣好出去散步。
本篇其他相關單字：
- Promotion 促銷
- all-you-can-eat 吃到飽
- unnecessary不必要的
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