SSS 2008-09-26
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(九)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
If you’ve ever gotten sucked into a bidding war on eBay, you know the feeling. With one minute left in the auction 1, the bidding is fast and furious 2 as everyone tries to come out on top. Higher and higher you up the ante, each click of the mouse a painful reminder 3 that you’ve already bid more than you wanted to spend. But why do we do that: overbid at public auctions 4? Now a team of neuroscientists says that, rather than the joy of winning, it’s an aversion to losing that drives such economic misbehavior.
In one experiment, the scientists set up a series of auctions. They told half the subjects that they would start the auction with a $15 bonus, which they got to keep if they won. The other subjects were told that, when the auction was done, if they won they’d get an extra 15 bucks 5. Either way, the winners would get the same bonus. But the researchers found that people bid more when they were afraid they might lose the money they already had, results that appear in the September 26th issue of Science. Of course, it could also be that people get possessive when they have money in their pockets, even if it’s just a fake 6 $15 that you can’t even use to buy an experimental cup of coffee.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
- They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
- They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
- I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
- His wife was furious with him.他妻子对他大发雷霆。
- I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
- It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。
- They picked up most of the furniture at auctions in country towns. 他们大部分的家具都是在乡村镇上的拍卖处买的。 来自辞典例句
- Our dealers didn't want these cars, so we had to dump them at auctions. 我们的承销商都不要这些车子，因此我们只好贱价拍卖。 来自辞典例句