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
accumulational terrace
aleyard
analect
argue to the contrary
balkier
be under the knife
bellmawr
Berestova
bio break
bioprotectant
birefringent retarder
blood uric acid monitoring system
Bramhope
cackleberry
Camellia grandis
carbonized beer
CFEFOBINE
chanson de toile
chloropalladate
chrysodema lewisii
cicatrised
corporealises
Cottrell effect
damping-coefficient
digit marker
dispersion of binomial distribution
ectas
enantiosymmetric polymerization
enclos
epiglossa
European nut pine
Exception of Container Insurance
external link
four-point method
greyhound racings
Halogenase
HAML
heterodont hinge
indicator drive
jumblers
khalaf
Klyavlino
land like a cat
lefferts
left-hand crankshaft
lekythus
logically
meteor brightness
mistake shadow for the substance
mixed small bean
mnemonists
Mongolic
morning woody
nervus chorda tympani
niche cells
non negative condition
norathyriol
oreton M
overload stud
pantograph collector
partook
passhe
pedantical
PF-TEST
phosphor screen
plan-
pontella kieferi
porella perrottetiana
proctostenosis
profile sander
project life
provisional wiring
pulse spacing
receipts out of budget
rectal hernia
rentback
repair box
root diameter
San Quentin
schiff's
sea water lubricated stern tube bearing
short feed
short-circuit turn
signaling smoke
single oblique cut
sink ... difference
soft-lander
spader
switch on off
tail tube
the very idea!
think small beer of
Tifosyl
upper ordinate set
valve of coronary sinus
var. b. m. teretis majoris
washpan
weather proof dressing
wedding-days
wireline corer
yawing motion
yield resistance