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
andrzejewski
antennal fovea
assumed ground plane
audominen
badhams
ballistic air density
Barowka
batt joint
Blake, William
body-on-frame
bottom-up methodology
building-out section
bulk density of grain
bupriopion (wellbutrin)
case-conference
cattle run
chalice vines
chamaephyta velantia
child neglect
coercive functions
command-driven searching
common gypsum powder
Contraction Cracks
crackups
d-to-a
driver's seat
drosophilae
dyrosaurid
electric pulley-block
Emuri
equality-restricted estimator
facies anterior medialis
finished concrete
flange moment
fluta alba
frequency of free oscillations
glass epoxy board
going with me
gongster
gospel according to johns
hangingup
hi-bottom
immarginatus
infiltration control
inspection at random
itea glutinosa hand- mazz
josteins
knock wood
Liberal Democrat
markly
motor transport marginal cost
multiple-instruction flow computer
Myf
natural-law-theories
Nettlespurge
nine-years
normalized wire
ocean energy utilization
offshore production facilities
oil-meal
opening-round
optical field
orlane
osric
out breathing (venting)
overseas travel sickness insurance
phantomizing
phenograms
pin register system
poking channels manipulation
presidential system
principal refractive indices
principle of least privilege
proving house
putrescent pulp
ramps
reduced cost
Rhododendron oreogenum
Ro2-9915
seam welding electrode wheel
shensiense
shirred fabric
simulated fact
sirship
skilip
smoking people
Sparaxis tricolor
stratospheric pollution
tatchell
telautograms
title bar text
toxic lesion
tridecendioic acid
Trompsburg
trough ship lift
ullrs
unhelved
vapourisers
vcd
Vinchos
wall-enclosure material
wronging