时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:各大品牌英文介绍


英语课

The Barbie doll is one of the most successful toys in history. It was launched in 1959 by the U.S. toy manufacturer Mattel. It has since become a cultural icon 1. American businesswoman Ruth Handler came up with the idea of an adult doll for small girls after seeing her daughter dressing 2 up paper dolls. The name ‘Barbie’ comes from Handler’s own daughter Barbara. Over 350,000 dolls were sold in the first year. Over a billion Barbies have been sold since. Clever marketing 3 means toy execs keep Barbie up with the times. They adjust to every cultural challenge and change. Her waist was recently widened to avoid stereotypes 4 that women must be thin. She also sports a tattoo 5 on her back. Sales are also boosted by a range of pets, cars and accessories – everything the young woman might need.


 



1 icon
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
2 dressing
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
  • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
  • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
3 marketing
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
4 stereotypes
n.老套,模式化的见解,有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
  • Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
  • It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调,我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 tattoo
n.纹身,(皮肤上的)刺花纹;vt.刺花纹于
  • I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
  • He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。
学英语单词
acid industry
antipersonnel hand grenade
antiquaire
attractedness
authentication failed
Beddington
belt making machine
bendigoes
Berle
bifurecated contact
billies
bioequivalence test
boron family
bottom-up change
caregiver
collective accelerator
combineth
comparence
compound tubuloacinar gland
contact hole
cordyceps takaomontana
correlated Monte Carlo method
coupler body
Dawhpumyang
Diligence is the mother of good fortune
double athetosis
double headed spike
early seasonal strain
edge constraint
enzymeless
ethanal ethyl aldehyde
fairing ribband
fanciful ornamentation
foreboard
forked repeater
Giam
haematal
Halimede
hanya holm
hard wired logic
impostumated
irrigation crop
isotope dilution mass spectrometry
kibworth
kiddies' table
kinsais
lap child
locomotive cell
Lucin
magnet core array
marking error
maxfield parrishes
mop up the floor with someone
multiwire counter
municipal-bond
musty cocon
mycetism
non-natural isotopic composition
nonradiating
notice of protest
optimum satellite configuration
oxygen debts
paran
passive gamma-ray assay
photon degeneracy
platensina tetrica
platinoid deposit
pocket antenna
power train
Poynting power
profile modified gear
prootic nerves
prostane
pubic lice
purring murmur
put out the blaze
quarantine wharf
refined oil stripper
resign yourself to sth
ronidase
Russell Group
scombrids
scrub oak
searchlight car
Seferis, George
segment buffer
spontaneous fission neutron
string length check
sweetspots
tacomas
telling stories
testudinian
the space age
the straw that broke the camel's back
thiefness
triclinic holohedral branchypyramid
ultra acoustic
underbiting
waiter
wave crack
wrench for small taps