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
2-chlorovinyldichloroarsine
accessory adrenal gland
acetic
agnations
Allen, Ethan
andrew jacksons
apodeme
artificial refractory insulating oil
auditory duct
be thick on the ground
bhunas
biaxial sign
box-coupling
bursae subcutanea acromialis
campos do jordao
centerx central office
chemohydrodynamics
clear superiority
clear wood
club terms
coal seam pitch
conservancy of sanitation
cryptocotylar
cryptographic system
Damncanthol
digital versatile discs
do ... duty
Do me Good
door widely open
ear doctors
Elaeagnus yunnanensis
ephemeromorph
episcopable
epoxy plastic
exhaustive search control
falsification of money
Fanuatapu I.
fardel-bouna
form of action form
front-load
fukuokas
fusobacterium necrophrum
Glaxo
Gleiwitz
go snacks
haunchup
high temperature brazing gas cooling furnace
Hot Creek Range
humanistic administration
indic perchlorate
interdiction bombing
international studies
Kumagaya
left justified
mandshurine
McCutchenville
member of labor union
mesurol
milli-metre
minfar
monochromatic display
multiprogramming executive system
murked
narasin
no risk till on board
Notes to Treatise on Febrile Diseases
numerical constant
oppresses
osteoblasts
parataxic
phase terminal voltage
phenylacetylglycine
point-and-clicks
Poussan
property right
protohymenium
quipper
radiculotomy
recompensating
Score Bay
second-order viscoelasticity
segment information
spintry
Starovirivka
stava
straitness of lumbar vertebrae
stress rupture testing machine
tandem center
tax-exempt interest
Tetraplodon
the gulf below
times-three register
tin tetrachloride
total pulmonary resistance
tuckerman
us -necked
Velyka Hlusha
well favoured
whanganui
William Green
with the understanding that
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