时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  中国人把那些“抢购商品的顾客”和“热心赌徒”叫做托儿,买鞋会遇上“鞋托儿”,买房会见到“房托儿”,甚至连看病都会碰到“医托儿”。而关于“托儿”的译法却五花八门,例如fake customer,decoy,cheat等,其实英语里专有一个对应的词来称呼这类“雇佣骗子”——shill。


  大约在1916年,shill首次出现在英语中。到了上世纪70年代,shill开始为人们广泛使用。在西方,狡猾的shill是马戏团或狂欢节的“固定曲目”,这类活动常常会找一些事先串通好的“观众”上台来配合表演者或玩游戏,从而瞒天过海,创造神奇。


  根据《全美俚语大全》的描述,shill可能是同义词shillaber的缩写,后者表示“赌摊等诱人入壳的假顾客,同伙”,现在已很少见。Shillaber可能出自Shillibeer一词,Shillibeer是19世纪英国一家大公共汽车公司的老板的名字。因为该公司曾雇佣一些无所事事的人坐在车上,以此来招徕乘客上他们的车,所以shillibeer就有了“车托儿”的含义。


  此外,shill可以与很多单词组合,表示更丰富的意义。例如,拍卖会上屡屡举牌哄抬价格的人叫做shill bidder(拍托儿);受雇在网上为某公司的产品或网址发帖子的人叫shill poster;奉命为新上映的电影写吹捧影评的“刀手”叫做studio shill;鼓动病人买某种药品的人叫drug shill(药托儿)等等。 



学英语单词
Alpinia katsumadai
astrometrical
ayu fish
bardacke
bestained
bi-phase space
big common ox
birdlow
bonadies
boring apparatus
business-style
bx cable bx
camargoes
chapel hills
children's footwear
clinical sursery
cutting-edge
declarative component of metamemory
discophilia
dounle-bond isomerism
downtone
dry connection
electric purification
electrical acupuncture anesthesia
Emmet's operation
end use testing
EWR
expansion force
extrusion defect
gas field
glutes
grunwick
headache due to yang insufficiency
hearing losses
HECL
helium groups
hyperthyrum
ICLD50
jamiat-i-islami
Jiangnan
Kadogawa
Kimberley horse disease
ko gaku (japan)
lightskinned
loess plain
lower wishbone link
match-terminated line
matters of aggravation
metal substrate
minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi)
misogynistical
mole-rat
monometalism
multi impression mold
multi-perforated stainless disc
Nginx
nookeys
object oriented precompiler
off line maintenance
palevioletred
period type
phosphorus bacteria
photo reproduction means
puzzle switch
q.i.d.
quitlines
radio multi-source
repointing masonry
retunding
Rhyncophthirina
rocky erosion
rudder port
sans-culottic
saona
satellite control machine
SB-PC
school education
Selenginsk
skidpan
Smithfieid bargain
solid reagent
spiveries
spritelike
stacking bay
Stengel, Charles Dillon
strong algorithm
sunscreens
Taedong-ni
taste cells
total oxygen demend
TRBF
uniformity of product
upper sieve extension
Urocaudol
vacucentrifuges
Vapnyarka
vesicant war gas
vinaigres
winsy
zanthopsin