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
.lbt
a-tall
abiologically
abledata
Agua Clara
altenberg
aluminium starch octenylsuccinate
antimissile defence system
antitabetic
backer-just rate equation
Batavian
blue-south
boiler soda boiling
bottom on
bromethalin
Brun's glucose
canalia
cis-4-tert-butylcyclohexyl tosylate
costained
credit term
crotchlines
digital overload
electric polarimeter
fallahian
fenestral recess
finished with engine
float gauge
giveout
grating shearing interferometer
guard-dogs
haemorrhagic
hardier
hydrodynamic drive rig
hypothesis-directed control
index of continentality
interior decorators
International Quiet Sun Year
interpolated interval
inverted hangs
Johnny Cash
kepler coordinates
knock sb's block off
Lady Amherst's pheasant
large evening
large vessel anchorage
light nucleus
littorine
long-range navigation (loran)
losanna
magnetic focused image intensifier
marine incinerator
mercury-motor meter
multiple element control
New Alexandria
non-feasible solution
nowlton
off-line data transfer
open-pit oil mining
Ophiorrhiza succirubra
pedestrian scramble
physiological phonetics
plattner
Pre-Greek
Pukhto
ranger file
reasonable standard of life
recusancy
rotary power broom
round robin system
scapular fracture
Schlenk flask
seed spout
self-windings
Septicid
Shebrew
slag launder
sold your soul
solible
spliceable
stern barrel
strepzotocin
strobing gate
synthesis ammonia
system error record editing program
t-headed bolt
tapped foot
tatz
Thelen
three-courser
traumatic subdural effusion
trochim
true point mutation
tuberous bromide-rash
turdiform
underbar
Vaucourt
veller
water-cooled copper crucible
wet-milling
wire wound frame
Xau, L.
xuxas