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
2.4-d
5RU
a large amount of
acetylene burner
advisory
alienations
Ambatondrazaka
artificial fact
at one's command
automaton classification
Avicron
aworth
ballon-carried equipment
blending octane value
boines
box forest
bread-and-butter letter
calcium hydrogen phosphite
cell filter
Chatham Rise
Christente
combining estimates of variance
costocervical lymph gland
counter-reactions
cylinder-gas
dense functor
descendents
double scattering experiment
down-regulations
dreamt up
East Australian Current
elementary chain
Engelthal
ependymas
equigranular texture
ERPIB (error recovery program interface byte)
flying paster
geodromica
glycerin monopropionate
ground discharge
gucky
hall porter
hypercalcipexy
iir (infinite impulse response)
interest subsidy
ISA5
Jodoprol
keays
kick copy
kookishness
lounge room
marked man
market assessment
metal fabrication
microorganic contaminant
monascoflacin
monkton
multi-tasking
off-card rate
oil remover
oil-immersion
Olcea
old favourite
Parfen'yevo
pistac
plotting area
Pondoland
price system
printing and dyeing textile equipment
properly discontinuous group
quasi-steady-state
quite useful
raneys alloy
received polynomial
reconstruction method
rhizospherebacteria
riggish
Salmonidae
scapples
scheduled flight
shirehorse
smashbox
social scale
sodium atom
squamate
staff development
suntan
the public
thun
tilt boundary
total width ratio
Ugchelen
Urban Programme
vane-type pump
Vela, C.de la
vinaceus
water-soaked till
wedge shapes
why the fuck
wild goats
Yankee Thanksgiving