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
a flood of tears
a/z ratio
Aedes caballus
aerospace command and control system
afebrile delirium
air-rail
Amery Ice Shelf
angular separation
aqueous solution growth
athel
baggit
benzoin dark-green
Berunes
beverly hill
bifactor model
broadband noise
Carolina lupine
champsodon snyderi
chucker-out
clearwell
coadjutors
crushing samples
decemviri
dilettante
domestic relations court
duple meter
electropneumatic
expediters
filament-wound glass-reinforced plastics
fillistered joint
geological epoch
gladiola
glide surface
go share
gooselike
hinged hopper
Homalogaster
hypericum hypericoidess
IGDP
Ikasi
Impatiens spathulata
indie-rock
inland waterways bill of lading
international transit cargo
Krasivaya Mecha
lick somebody's boots
lupinus albus l. white lupine
machine bit
Magmasil
main fans
masculise
mesh strength
micro prisms
monitoring printer
moss-rose
motherland
Muraena
navl
nigrospora sphaerica
nissens
occupied beds
Palestinianise
partial partitioned inverse
philus
point observation method
postreductional disjunction
primary tubercle
processor input interface
Prothiucil
pseudogaster
pulsed UV nitrogen laser
related terminal
roky
sample-and-hold cell
sausenap
Seattleite
sicca rhinitis
single-crank double-action press
slit bonding
sne
spraycrete
strip casting
swivel angle of wheelhead
time of recovery
tincoated
to soup up
toxic fume
trailer tipping device
trinely
turn around area
uneared
unrestricted job
up-and-coming star
vertical market foreclosure
virtual eccentricity
Vratsanska Oblast
water-gas tar emulsion
wireless networks
xenon peak
yellow mercuric oxide ophthalmic ointment
yirb