时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:2014年Scientific American(三)月


英语课

Lady Gaga's fake finger now and justin timberlake's partly even french toast have fetched big box auction 1 because the seemingly worthless items once belonged to a celebrity 2. Now a study  found that the price depend on how much contact the celebrity had with an item and whether they heroes and vallence.The research is in the precedings of national academy of sciences. Data from auctions 3 will reveal that people will spend more on items like jewelry 4 rather than furniture, at least for a while, folks like JFK or JKO. Items from a wide of celebri.......The finding suggests that people's desire for a celebrity's membria stems from the belief what's called Contagion 5, the idea that a person's essence can be transfered through the object they touched.A follow up experiment further supports the Contagion idea. Participants said  they  would pay substantially less for a celebrity's sterylizing sweater if it had been sterylized. But sterylization actually increased the amount of subjects who would pay for the sweaters owned by a dislike -celebrity. Gives a whole new meaning to money laundering 6.



n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
n.拍卖,拍卖方式( auction的名词复数 )
  • They picked up most of the furniture at auctions in country towns. 他们大部分的家具都是在乡村镇上的拍卖处买的。 来自辞典例句
  • Our dealers didn't want these cars, so we had to dump them at auctions. 我们的承销商都不要这些车子,因此我们只好贱价拍卖。 来自辞典例句
n.(jewllery)(总称)珠宝
  • The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
  • Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。
n.(通过接触的疾病)传染;蔓延
  • A contagion of fear swept through the crowd.一种恐惧感在人群中迅速蔓延开。
  • The product contagion effect has numerous implications for marketing managers and retailers.产品传染效应对市场营销管理者和零售商都有很多的启示。
n.洗涤(衣等),洗烫(衣等);洗(钱)v.洗(衣服等),洗烫(衣服等)( launder的现在分词 );洗(黑钱)(把非法收入改头换面,变为貌似合法的收入)
  • Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering. 洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He was charged with laundering money. 他被指控洗钱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
Acadian
after-fixing
alkaline earth sulfide
an armpit
anguish
antibillboard
asavol
asynchronous development
atomic blast simulator
axial flow steam turbine
bare-metal cloud
biosuit
Bou Grara
breakdown of marriage
butch
cantina wagon
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana
cattail pk.
cinematographically
clocked violation HI
corn-crib
crossjacks
Dendrobium gratiosissimum
do sth by a whisker
doxastic logics
embroid
fergons
floor tile production line
foamback
foot step
Formalities for Entering Port
frame mounted traction motor
fuming
gheorghiu-dej
gypsum process
hair ribbon
high potential
hypophysenhormone
hysterocervicotomy
idiographic discipline
incircumspect
informed consents
interworked
ityorhoptrum verruculosum
klonciliums
km
lavalier microphone
local oscillator tuning
luteetomy
magnetic helicity
Maphilindo
mealberries
mean neap rise
microanatomic
microencephalopathy
migrating birds
minirebellion
morphinistic
nanocrystallizations
natural gas pyrolysis
neutron multiplication constant
nonflammability
nozzle throat area
nuclear angular precession frequency
Olhão
Ouzzeïn, Adrar
overkeeps
paranoia acuta
parisite-(Nd)
pieplant
polyangitis
porcelain-enameled steel panel
puts to work
quantitative strategic planning matrix
rattlewings
replacement-level
resin-pigment ratio
self-levelling device
sequence controlled system
shock arrester
silkworm chrysalis
spectrum factor
sub-region
sublimatogram
sun-burned
sun-ripened
tanning tumbler
terries
transversal movement
triode gas laser
tuffoid
tweezer grasp
unike
unsupervised
vipoxin
Vorovskolesskaya
Waray
wilburton
williamson's turn
workable microprocessor
Wr.
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