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
abdumalik
alalic
altheas
amandla
ambassadeur
annunciator window
be low in one's pocket
biological fathers
Bis-2-Ethyl-Hexyl-Phthalate
bolshakov
bottle thermometre
burst-energy-recovery efficiency
capulins
carpet wire
cementation belt joint (glued belt joint)
centre of friction
changseung
clay blocking
college role
commercial-bank
complex normed space
control computer subsystem
dark orange
Davis, Jefferson
diadromy
dipropyl barbituric acid
dream-stick
driven shaft bearing cup
effervescence, effervescency
elevater bucket
enolate ion
ensmall
epigrammatised
evidence generator
extromit
family Rhizopogonaceae
ferrite core
fiddled around
Fimbristylis nanningensis
first palatalization
fluminose
fluorescence quartz glass
FOA
forward-reverses
fourfold axis of symmetry
Fuso Black Body
hafod
high resolution detector
high-velocity forming die
horizontal linearity
Imbros
indicated pressure altitude
initial volcanic stage
Jill
jumboising
landscaped
lean finely textured beef
light beats
liko
maca root
make-hawk
MAR (minimum acceptability requirement)
measurable transformation group
molossuses
monostromatic
Mysore(Maisur)
orangites
osmoregulated
overtold
papilla nervi optici
parently
pealius rhododendri
piezoelectric composite
pleural nerve cord
post cover
provisional pharter
radio ID
rape suspects
raw rubber
red green blue
reteplase
Rs.
salified
seeing the light
Sialor
side gate holder
silk mercer
St-Martin-du-Mont
steel pick head
take a bow
talinum katens willd
tetraacetylglucose
thas
the millennium bug
therapeutic index
thymelike
transportable missile-tracking radar
unbounded spectral operators
universes
valuenow
young and innocent