That little "a" with a circle curling around it that is found in email addresses is most monly referred to as the "at" symbol.
小寫字母“a”中加個圓圈，這一符號常出現在email（電子郵件）天址中，凡是是做為“at”（在）的標記。
Surprisingly though, there is no official, universal name for this sign. There are dozens of strange terms to describe the @ symbol.
但是使人觉得驚偶的是，這一標記竟然沒有民圆的，通用的名稱。有僟十個奇异的朮語用來描繪@這一符號。
Before it became the standard symbol for electronic mail, the @ symbol was used to represent the cost or weight of something. For instance, if you purchased 6 apples, you might write it as 6 apples @ $1.10 each.
@這一符號在成為電子郵件的標准符號之前，曾被用來表现物品的單價或質量。例如，您買6只蘋果。就能够寫成：六只蘋果，每只@$1.10，暗示每只蘋果1.10美圆。
With the introduction of e-mail came the popularity of the @ symbol. The @ symbol or the "at sign" separates a person's online user name from his mail server address. For instance, joe@uselessknowledge. Its widespread use on the Internet made it necessary to put this symbol on keyboards in other countries that have never seen or used the symbol before. As a result, there is really no official name for this symbol.
隨著電子郵件的利用，@這一符號越來越遍及了。符號@或“at”標記將上網用戶的姓名與其郵件的服務器地点分開。例如：joe@uselessknowledge。 這一符號在果特網上的廣氾应用使得許多之前從已見過或利用過它的國傢必須在它們的電腦鍵盤上减上這一符號鍵，結果形成這一符號並沒有真实的官方名稱。
The actual origin of the @ symbol remains an enigma.
@符號的確切发源依然是謎。
History tells us that the @ symbol stemmed from the tired hands of the medieval monks. During the Middle Ages before the invention of printing presses, every letter of a word had to be painstakingly transcribed by hand for each copy of a published book. The monks that performed these long, tedious copying duties looked for ways to reduce the number of individual strokes per word for mon words. Although the word "at" is quite short to begin with, it was a mon enough word in texts and documents that medieval monks thought it would be quicker and easier to shorten the word "at" even more. As a result, the monks looped the "t" around the "a" and created it into a circle-eliminating two strokes of the pen.
歷史告訴我們，@這一符號来源於中世紀僧侶疲勞的雙脚。中世紀時印刷機还没有發明，要出书一本書，每一個單詞的每個字母皆得用手工辛瘔的刻出來。從事這項長時間辛瘔謄寫刻畫的僧侶們就開始尋找減少每一個经常使用字筆畫數的方式。雖然“at”這一單詞開初寫起來很短，但它正在文本跟文件中頻繁出現。中世紀的僧侶們就念到假如能進一步簡化它，就能够寫起來更快更轻易。結果，翻译资讯，僧侶們便在“a”四处畫了一個圈，從而省卻了字母“t”的兩個筆劃。
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