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
Acerno
acid dyeing
adjacent spot
afro-colombians
agvs (automated guided vehicle system)
armyll
array of pixels
Asia Broadcasting Union
atresia of common bile duct
back-spaul(d)
bimble
blackhall
bottomming
cagot
cardiodynia
casing thumper
charging carriage
continuous concreting
continuous strand mat
corneal tube
cospas-sarsat message
Cuvicr's sinuses
deep survey
deep-sea chef
directing energy weapon
ecobiotic
edge runner
effective sampling area
epidendrobine
epurations
faithcure
fir-type groove
flux light method
fondle admiringly
friction socket
full scene
gaolers
glass transition point
goal instance id
handler parameter
hanging tile
hessian fire hose
high-tensile bronze
imperfect crystal
in this bout
income tax return system
incoming generator
information value
ipomoea resin
irrevocable credit
ischnothyreus narutomii
isoelectrofocused
keep count of
laudification
layer cake
life pension
Macrotomia euchroma
mastogloia inaequalis
matagen
Matane R.
Minden City
nascars
nicoulin
nient culpable
nonnucleate
om nom nom
oxyphyllus
panelbeater
pastoral (france)
phase-sequence reversal protection
pipework condensation
pitches into
placentogram
Planquinol
pressure regulating thumb screw
puncture needle
radioactive radiation
ratchet bar
record of the American Bureau of Shipping
red-beard
renormed
Rhododendron arboreum
rotatory drier
scintillation efficiency
serrated root
shuttle preventer spring
slopeing shoulder
somatotropism
sporogenous filament
spring feeder
stoolie
tactical communication satellite (tacsatcom)
television picture generation
terminals per station
tetraphenylborate
uniform distributions
univibbrator
van der Waals' forces
vius
wendover
Xenocrates
yedoes