时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   今天我们要给大家介绍的一个习惯用语是:by word of mouth。By word of mouth,很简单,每个词都很简单。Word是单词;mouth就是嘴巴。By word of mouth? 嘴巴里的词?好像没有这种说法。但是你要仔细想想,这也没错,因为by word of mouth就是通过口头来传播。也就是一个消息经过一传十,十传百以后,许许多多人都知道了这件事。


  就拿给我那修车的那师傅来说吧,他从来不做广告,可是生意很好。因为他修车的技术很高,价钱又很公道,所以他的顾客们主动地把他介绍给自己的亲戚朋友,也就是"by word of mouth."
  聪敏的生意人都知道顾客自愿给你作口头宣传的重要性。下面就是一个例子。我们来听听这个小公司的老板是怎么说的。
  例句-1:I think the best form of advertising 1 is by word of mouth. People don't believe a lot of what they hear or see in paid-for advertisements, but when they hear a recommendation directly from a friend, they are far more likely to act on it.
  这老板说:我认为最好的广告方式是口口相传。人们不太相信他们听到的或看到的那种付钱做的广告。当他们直接从朋友那儿听到推荐,他们就很可能会采纳。
  这话没错。 商家出了很多钱做广告就是要吸引你去买他们的产品,所以往往会说的天花乱坠,实际并不如此。
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  By word of mouth这个说法从16世纪就开始流行了, 到今天已经有五百多年了。那时候既没有收音机,也没有电视,口头传播当然就是主要的方式之一。下面我们来听听一个年轻人是怎么找工作的。
  例句-2:It was very lucky actually. They didn't advertise the new position. I only found out about it because I know someone who works there. The other applicants 2 all found out by word of mouth too. I hope I get the job!
  这个人说:其实我很运气。他们没有为招聘这个职位登广告。我是因为认识在那里工作的一个人才知道的。其他申请这个职位的人也是通过口传才知道的。 我希望能得到这份工作。
  在美国找工作有许多渠道,像报纸上的广告呀,因特网上的信息呀,但是人们常常也靠别人提供的信息,就像刚才那个例句里说的情况一样。

1 advertising
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
2 applicants
申请人,求职人( applicant的名词复数 )
  • There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
  • He was impressed by the high calibre of applicants for the job. 求职人员出色的能力给他留下了深刻印象。
学英语单词
Achromobacter ambiguum
actinouranium series
aldos
amount of labor in a certain form
anae
anighto metrorite
area amygdaloidea anterior
arse bandit
be in the clutches of
borastons
Bupinnarizinum
cesspipe
charitarian
Chunlei
circumoesophageal ring
combined main and intermediate distributing frame
commercial residential building
common accumulation
compresences
Corydalis yanhusuo poisoning
course of instruction
cropped surface
cross-relation function
crucial anastomosis
cuero
Danza slap
dedicatee
demi-vierges
design center
design element
drag parachute
Ehrlich's granules
electrically driven feed pump
elliptic functions
emulsified bases
encl
equalized assignment
facet formation
fan-pattern holes
final exploration
foreign-investment
full dip
Germantown
got wind of
Gutzkow's process
hawksbill turtles
hydrometric
ice of land origin
inorganic forms of nitrogen
isotropic aerial
kataclastic
Leaping Lena
linearhull
lock-up shop
make sb's hair curl
make sth over to sb
manslots
Midongy Atsimo
molecules
nonsoftware
nonwooded
Obongo
ore deposit due to magmatic segregation
Otanthera
Oum el Guedour
overlength fibre
pancake makeup
permanent shrinkage
prismatick
pseudotrunks
rake up the smouldering embers of
red-oak
residents' association
ricochet
ruby shellac
saccharide grous
scalped anticline
scheduling operation
sell like hotcakes
slip-scratch
softe of stomach
squash vine
steel-bar bender
step-like epitaxial growth
superior-inferior
supplementary feeds
Taxi Driver
The Helmsman
theories of motivation
thespesia populneas
to slam
traction frame with pulley attachment
tumans
two-cavity klystorn
ultra-project-meter
unit start-up and commissioning
vagotomy
vatikiotis
with no thought for sth
wtr.
yaw comparator
Zaur