时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语生活新闻


英语课
Women have to pay a lot more in stores than men for almost the same things. A new study by The Times newspaper in Britain found that many products for women cost up to twice as much as similar products for men. Researchers looked at hundreds of goods in the UK's biggest shops. They found that women's clothes and beauty products and girls' toys were on average 36 per cent more expensive than products for men and boys. One store charged over $7 more for a pink scooter aimed at girls than a black one. Another store charged double the price for ten razors simply because they were pink. Researchers said Levi's 501 jeans for women are on average 46 per cent more expensive than those for men.
 
The Times called this "sexist" pricing. Other people have called it a "gender 1 tax". Maria Miller 2, the chairwoman of the British government's women and equalities committee, called it a "rip-off". She said she would ask Britain's government to look into this to see if there was price discrimination. Britain's Financial Times (FT) newspaper said: "Perhaps women tend to be busier and have less time to shop around. Or perhaps they care more about quality when it comes to deodorant 3 or shampoo, whereas 4 men just want something cheap." However, the FT said men paid more for some things and questioned why the journalists did not look at the price differences for things that appeal more to men.
 

n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
n.磨坊主
  • Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
  • The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。
adj.除臭的;n.除臭剂
  • She applies deodorant to her armpits after she showers.沐浴后,她在腋下涂上除臭剂。
  • Spray deodorant and keep the silk garments dry before dressing.在穿衣之前,洒涂防臭剂并保持干燥。
conj.而,却,反之
  • They want a house,whereas we would rather live in a flat.他们想要一座房子,而我们宁愿住在一套房间里。
  • Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他,而有些人谴责他。
学英语单词
(hemispherical)emissivity (of a thermal radiator)
a school of fish
acid wash color test
alignment of rudder blade and rudder stock on platen
alter the letter of credit
annual rate of investment
anti-slip
apoandesite
armorpiercing shell
at the pumps
bandhnu
base of a logarithm
be defeated
below-deck
bergna
Bernoulli constant
bragg's
cache memory control communication
call fires
calocedrus macrolepis formosana
capital balance
ceratotheca
chemical diffusion laser
christopher sholes
clapboarding
combination spreader
concute
condition and exceptions
domestic deposit
dual-purpose
Elachistaceae
empirical chemistry
ex-service
fernbrake
fibre-optic arteriorenous oximeter
fixed positively charged exchange site
flight flutter kit
fm transmitters
fork and blade type rod
Fukusaki
full capacity tap
gastrosplenic
give sb a break
go beyond the commission
gravelotte
gravitational singularities
Habay-la-Neuve
half-tone original
hardstone
harrowbies
hazardable
hogel
Hooker extrusion method
hour grass blanking
i-seined
interactive programming language
keypunch error
make one's appearance
members
metallic-rectifier cell
microphone case
moala
modulus of elliptic integral
monolithic quartz crystal filter
multikaryon
Mustafābād
mutafacience
natural solid fuel
net income per share of common stock
non-benzenoid aromatics
nonmonetary financial intermediary
out of town clearings
p-methoxyaniline
paleographic
pen touch
pizarroes
plotting cross-section
pluralizable
positive potenital
race-
Rauhe Ebrach
relig.
rental condominium
resin cure
Rhododendron delavayi Franch.
sand bearing wind
sero-surveillance
sheet molding compound (smc)
single-seed spacing unit
synthetic call option
temperature-differance quotient
terminal pulleys
the backstroke
Tight control on investment in fixed assets
totally integrable
trypanosyllis taeniaformis
turn on electricity
unfactionalized
unsuited
Vernadovka
Verneuil's disease
yarn flattening