by name

by name, in name

这是两个与name有关的固定搭配。
by name: （也可说成 by the name of）是个中性词组，义：“名叫什么”，它放在专有名词之后，以表示你所要说明的人或物的确实名称。

• the aeronautical engineering institute has built an airplane，“stingray”by name.
  航空学院制造了一架飞机，名叫“刺 ”。
• there was a great poet china，qu yuan by name.
  中国有个伟大的诗人，名叫屈原。
• someone by the name of mary wants to see you.
  有个叫玛丽的要见您。

in name: 是贬义词，表示“名义上”、“徒有虚名”之意。

• he is a doctor in name only；he stays in the stock exchange all day long.
  他只是名义上是个医生；他整天在股票交易所里。

名词 by name:

1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
   同义词：nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname

1. The teacher knows all his students by name.
   这位老师叫得出所有学生的名字。
2. Although she didn't mention me by name, I know her remarks were intended for my benefit.
   虽然她没提到我的名字，但我明白她的话是为我好。
3. He is Jones by name.
   他名叫琼斯。
4. A strange man, fred by name, come to see me.
   有个名叫弗雷德的陌生人来找我。
5. A strange man, Fred by name, came to see me.
   有个名叫弗雷德的陌生人来找我。