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
'eard
access control mechanism
acentromeric
adjs
all of a doodahdoodah
Allegheny Mountains
American lion
anatomical position
auscultation
autoload
bearing for governor
bed arch
bewinged
biconstituent fibre
Bostra
bush redpepper
carbon filter
coadjutor bishop
come on the double
conscript
control menu box
cyclone hydraulic separator
dial type thermometer
digitally enhanced cordless telecommunications system
emergences
etopic testis
euphonizing
farm engine
ficticio
flat end needle rollers
fuel oil drum
glossarist
greasing the wheels
guimp
hashigakari
high speed photograph application in wind tunne1
hyperbolic operator
ICA for cotton
Ifetesene
impulse-wheel meter
inartificial
inspection percentage
Komala
lunar flight dynamics
magnitude of class interval
Matha Strait
mens rea
microtutor
mojas
newdemo
nient le fait
non-metallic sheath
oleanonic acid
open sea shelf facies
operating oil pressure
out of print
overset
ox
parabolic differential equation
Parafilaria
parcel sorting control
Pentlands
phaidons
photoacoustic detection
platen-pressed particle board
popularized variety
power interference
pre pack
pre-teens
predicated
primulin
quercus garryanas
religionising
roll on/roll off transport
Rosa kwangtungensis
salinity-temperature-depth(STD)
satellite computer
satellitium
service locomotive
shear fissure
Silene viscidula
sinicize
sinonatrix percarinata
sooth to to speak
spangle conveyer
St Martinville
stability of degree two
static thermal measuring instrument
straddle carrier crane
structured tutoring
thermomultiplier
threshold quantity
transplantable tumor
tree gene bank
turmoil
two-stage lubricating oil filter
vapourware
Varegovo
vasyl
waggish
well-thoughts