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
A.R.C.S
ACPTC
associationalist
attic salt, attic wit
average switching power loss
begums
bellottis
broadcast-tower antenna
chain hydrometer
climatological station
Coactin
coaxial-line frequency meter
computer controlling unit
contact sense module
cooling-stage
cost of staff
Damazan
Defereggental
deferred printing
disk crank
double-deck floating roof
drags by
drip over
econometric analysis and testing
effective blood plasma flow
empire-line
ephrem
equivalent frame method
every thing
facing of pile
feeder channel
first fruit
flying accident
free skin graft
general modular redundancy
genus scirpuss
half-timbered
hand brake lever pawl rod
heavy filling bar
highly refined oil
ILAE
input and output analysis
intermixingly
international union of advertisers associations (iuaa)
iron sights
IT calorie
j.f.c
jequiritin
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
keltner
kosa
krenite
laboulbenia japonica
landini cadcnce
lifting grab
manspeaker
microfilm machine
mid-mountain
misanthropes
mollycoddling
NOM. (nominal)
Not wash
obligation in general averange
open shed jacquard
pang seh
Payerbach
physical model
polarization spectrometer
potosina
pregabalin
prevention and remedy
rate multiplier
rons
saxbe
service part
set-over
sherried
simple portfolio
single-measurement
speak down to sb.
submerging
superacute
swivelling mounting
talus deposit
tank-selector valve
timespans
tooling up
trapped air-fuel ratio
tridecylene
uith
ultra-violet energy
ulzheimer
unclomb
union density
unit head drilling machine
unit organ
unshared-electron pair
uv-transmitting
valute spring
vehicle storage track
Whitleyism
wildt