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
at the order of
Baci-jel
bad shit
bailet
bejading
belladonna lily
biographettes
Bornel
brand mark
bridging over
butterbread
calcium phosphorus ratio
can really pick'em
ceom
check of foundation subsoil
checkrow planter
chemical thermal treatment
chymotryptic hydrolysis
comparativist
complex processes
coordination catalysis
cubello
deb.
digit puncher
disinformer
disposal method
drawing room car
eeny
ethyl dichloroacetate
excess cross-section
extensive magnitude of labo(u)r
fanchonette
fish-net
fluoranthenyl
Gurbīya
hastinapurans
Hemagoda
Ilex cochinchinensis
inces
insert valve
internal centre
ischemic necrosis of head of femur
isoval
jiangqing
let something alone
lightning area
lockkeepers
log-log range
lundies
Lwero
melarsen
melfi
menobranchs
meritor
my boo
Network Management Station
Nitroerthrol
non-suppressible insulin-like activity
nonalgorithmic procedure
nonlymphoproliferative
obese
off-site
overstrained crystal
Paihia
pattern half
personal television
preambulating
push-endoscopy
put sth. in force
quack politician
Rattus hawaiiensis
resource-allocations
rhizo-
roesgen
rotor gearing ratio
Satchel Paige
satsuma albida
saturation magnetic moment
scabicide
shoe polishes
Shoot a Cat
simultaneous backfilling device
sound advice
South African tick-bite fever
Stephania Lour.
submarine rocket (subroc)
summer eruption
surfacial spalling
synchronous impedance method
Taean-gun
Tatey, Stung
termss
to pee
trophoblast differentiation
twelfth grades
underjoin
urbs
VDAC
width of tooth roller
writing master
Yorkshire puddings
Zheng Chenggong