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
acid waste
ADT (automatic data translator)
air space reservation
alcoholic fuel
anisotropic hypofine coupling constant
arefactions
as dumb as a wooden Indian
associative encode method
ballahoo
be out like a light
be stripped to the waist
blakeney har.
boundary stone
Breidhavatn
brown tiger prawn
cantel
Carex autumnalis
cash gratuity
castelfranco di sotto
cementing bond
choicelessness
cobalt powder
condylus lateralis tibiae
coneflower
config ppp
control face
coordination processor
copestones
crossing-sweepers
demodex ovis
di-2-ethylhexylphosphine oxide (MEHDPO)
diaminopimelic
dreepy
drop lock clause
drug-free
eight hundred number
eighteen-eight steel
electroneuronographically
fiduciary service
flake board
genus Mitella
graviplanation
heat-sensitive element
helicoidal
helmert-blocking techniques
hemikryptophyta repentia
high sensitive vacuum tube voltmeter
inclined parallelopiped
incomplete task log
intrachordal
K-K reaction
Kalat
karagis
keep a full stand of seedlings
learning and maturation
level-luffing crane
linear time delay circuit
low-densily
make someone's peace with
narrowly-defineds
navy avionics development laboratory (nadl)
neo-Mendalism
nitrate bed
ODMG
oklahoma-based
once run kerosene
one-symbol alphabet
Ozma, Project
parallelodrome
phenyl ethylene
power line
pressure potential
punch path
R-AFF
ratio of internal reserves to net profits
reclaim
rehydrates
reset setting
Sabina saltuaria
sakalava
selenio-siegenite
Seto Great Bridge
sliding wheel
sofr
Somazina
speaking ability
standard form for LC
statistical argument
sycophantical
Tandarei
to the full
tooney
two-timers
ucatts
Varibility
verbalistic
warnke
water absorption meter
Wittersdorf
wodeship
writing technique
zygophyllums