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
acceptance of fibre core
Ad4BP
algorithmic elaboration
annual rate
anti-trade wind
antigonorrheic
apparences
attack heading
auroral spectra
B-stage resin
bar stock type
Borrelia mucosa
bump ball
carburetor strainer screen
catch work
cephalosporinase
chloracetic acid
chondroitinuria
civil registries
compound breakwater
continuous creation hypothesis
Corallodiscus lanuginosus
cuco
double based relay
Egmont Vill.
electron probe micro-analyzer
employed
entangled light emitting diode
erotic plasticity
ethanolamines
fire prevention and control
get ... eyes on
gnathosome
go security for
gore blood
grooved trolley wire
hasbarist
heavy-duty transport machine
hinsa
huesing
incidence coefficient
include in
innocent tumor
intermontane basin
Japanese rose
joint-custody
karlshafen (bad karlshafen)
Las Cejas
Le Shuttle
load-test
lower order need
mackarness
macula acustica utriculi
mammograph
manuevering
methyl phenyl carbinol
miscellaneous charges for passenger transportation
Monati, Mys
multi-specificity
mycellium
numerical trigonometry
operational element
ottoman turks
overassertiveness
parallel/serial register
parcel bag
Pavlovism
penetration factor
pipe-tap
piperidino-pyrimidine
postapp
potassium tetrabromoaurate(iii)
psycho
push button selection
quadratic function
quartz-diorite
radical copolymerization
Rahden
ranidaes
re-stage
reissue of debenture
residuum hydroconversion
ripple waveform
sawaeng
schmunk
skin calcinosis circumscripta
solidago odoras
ST_technology_faxes-pagers-and-text-messages
stroke end
sylviculturist
tag themselves on to
the legal limit
thorough-toll
towerlet
transfer entry
transmission of force
transmitting objective lens
unit response function
uterine rupture
virgin snow
wave path-difference
well-known trademark