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
Aalten
absorption ratio test
accelerated oxidation
administrative VMS
aflagellar
Amentiferae
aminoacyl esterase
anhidrotics
annual storage plant
antelation
arenesulfonamide resin
batting helmet
belt dressing
benzyl dimethyloctadecylam-monium chloride
binary control
brachypterism
brain
Bronchio
cambridge roll
central excise
change horizon value
charge sensitivity
citrosa
cotton working drill gloves
CRT spatial encoder
cyclotrimethylenet-rinitramine
decreasing drying rate period
diric
discourse-oriented
distorting effect
drawn plow
duck hepatitis virus
echinating
export factoring
feed compartment
first error communication
fluorescence decay time
foreign court
forward acting error correction
fused-junction diode
gang mills
Gaura parviflora
genus Solanum
get the last laugh
half-acres
herb gardens
high tension switchboard
hoofs or hooves
interferring
Iskenderon
jaundiced eye
kalansuwas
kasimordon
labour lost
Larderello
lithium oxalate
loop cutting machine
low molecular polymer
lump sum deposit
machined cage
millenarians
Montluel
moonboots
mpeg-1 audio layer 1
multitrauma
myomatectomy
no perfect multicollinearity
no-parvalue
non recognition
ospytalle
palmitoleostearin
parabolic trough
pastorable
paw support
product deletion
program region length register
proleptic
pterostigma
pulley block hoist
railway torpedo
recrystallized tungsten wire
rotational sense
rust-red flour beetle
sag to leeward
sampling of fishery biology
semen zizyphi spinosae
simple acting
sinapic acid
spermatic abscess
suncruz
SYHCH (synchronization character)
thalamic reticular nucleus
the veil
touch of the tar brush
tub bath
untraitorous
uranologists
vabras
Voyennykh Topografov, Mys
wheel burn
Yucatec
zona intermedia