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
ahillo mt.
alden
aut vitam aut culpam
ballast-draft speed
be in a bind
bioelectrical preamplifier
book value trade inventory
bowsprit shroud plate
breaks through
bugel
bulkwater parameterization
call something into play
camomile
Chan Son
Chiaocheng raw goatskins
Chiaramonte Gulfi
Claoxylon brachyandrum
clavicepss
consition
convergingly
cream paste
criteria of independence
deep-sea vessel
devel
diagram setup
discomforter
dose(rate)meter
dreaded lurgy
drillosteoclasis
dyskerin
end rhymes
enterovirus enterovirus
epoxy-resins
ethnomusicology
Fedorivka
ganglionic tumor
Gate-Papacostas' tests
genus Erythroxylum
geographical distant race
give someone a lift
Hedged portfolio
high-alcohol
hood-mould
Humboldt Mountains
hydrophysical
hypochondriases
immunoregulating
International Towing Tank Conference
Kaplankyrskiy Gosudarstvennyy Zapevednik
kiafricans
Kodor
laid to the bone
light running fit
low implantation of placenta
Lydian mode
lysophosphatidylserines
man-made protein fibre
manned space flight tracking network
mixed fund
Na'īs
neotenize
on-demand information
optimization with noise
parasitaemias
pay ... respects to
peaden
Policy of Protection in Shipping
polyester fibre reinforcement
preceding president
primet
program controlled reconnaissance equipment
radical rightism
Raghugarh
rebukings
rectal cannula
reprobater
resuscitations
Rock-Eval pyrolysis
rolamite mechanism
Sakumo L.
scfg
Scotice
sedative-hypnotics
sensitivity time control circuit
shapis
shoeleather
silicate cement plugger
Souques's phenomenon
southern pitch pine
spellbinder
steam void coefficient of reactivity
stop ... wind
street-at-night
subordinate matrix norm
tacamahacs
thymic hyperplasia
tree maintenance
unbenched
undergeneralizations
underluminous star
unsulphited extract
voltage across