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
accessorius willisii
aerocrete panel
airless injection system
amphigouri
arthrobotrys cladodes macroides
asymmetric I/O
athwart-hawse
automatic throttle valve
awarness
basement fold
billops
bitrophic
bretagne (brittany)
buff the muffin
Bukuro
Celastrus punctatus
coat color of livestock
column-inches
corsetmaking
counterfactually
culture tube
cycle-ways
dark-blue
detachment surface
dialog manager
dibudinate
direct expansion cooling
Dornsife
early order stock
electromagnetic logging
end crosstalk
English Harb.
establishing
exclaves
facileness
firelog
follow-up study
foot mounting cylinder
gellan
genus Amoeba
genus kolkwitzias
geremia
gestational psychosis
go amuck
grab them by the pussy
grone
gyrkins
Halleck, Fitz-Green
hickory leaf roller
hoof oil
I spent my childhood in Califormia
idolatrises
inertial gravitational guidance
irreversible procedure
knatchbull
laws of equal areas
Leser-Trelat symptom
magazine show
maximum allowable coefficient of friction
n-core per bit
nepticulid
non taxable dividends
Nonacontane
noui
nylon brush
oliviformis
over-growth
P. N. P.
penichromin
petrol level ga(u)ge
Piešt'any
plastic raw material
plug and slot welding
pre visit
psychophysical time
radiation danger criterion
rearmounted mower
residential economics
reuterin
road-rail
roundnose
salami sausage
Septembrists
slim nose pliers
sodium tellurate(VI)
strombolian activity
suprasternal notches
teefin'
telegraphic transfer rate
the last agony
Tleta Akhasass
to each equally
toroidal harmonic
tropical sprue
twist in same direction
unhandiness
unsufferable
verruca filiformis
videphone
worldwide synchronization
wrencher
zeroload