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
adaptive subbend coding
addiments
albinism
anthropomorphic pressure suit
areodesy
ariake
astrohall
at sb's disposal
bills rediscounted
bon vivant
caelatus
carabiform
challos
checking up on the projects under construction
chemical colorimetry
cochleariuss cochleariuss
colloidal metastable
compressor rated point
Contra Costa County
copaid
core parting line
cucurbitula
customer software
cymomotive force
dentes adversus
derivativeness
disusance
dog and pony shows
dyingness
efficiency band
epidemic model
external accounts
farmes
fencestone
fitting strip
flagonless
foreign exchange method
fuel element failure
geegaw
ginger-beer
giri
Gizo I.
groundwater transport of waste
hanford works
hematuric fever
high-pressure steam
hoist over-wind device
hold up sth
home economics education
horoscopy
Hydrocharitales
in the earth
infoldments
kelvin spring
Kepler Mts.
label(l)ing
lead-seal zone
Lombardy erysipelas
low-noise electronics
manual time release
Millington reverberation formula
mud turtle
myophosphorylase deficient glycogenosis
norvegicus
Ogcocephalus
out-comes
overload testing
parabolicity
Pattersonite
Pharyngogram
practisest
prebottom
preparation of document
primary mesenchyme
protoneutron star
receptacle of inflorescence
rhizoma iridis
right to sunshine
Roatelo
sam encipherment key
scavaging
scintillation delay time
second house
snarkily
speed reduction ratio
St-Albain
Stachler Kopf
surder
switch-and-fuse
Talcott method of latitude determination
talk-aloud protocol
thirteenth-century
torque actuator
typhoon-lagoon
unbefool
unfavorable condition
unless general
vacuum shutter
valsa mori
viramidine
work and turn