时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(八)月


英语课

 This is scientific American sixty seconds science. I'm Evelyn Lamb. Got a minute?


 
Big city dwellers 1 who need a car for less than a day can rent Zipcars by the hour. Zipcar's ads emphasize environmentalism and community. But a recent study shows most  Zipcar users primarily consider their own convenience and cost rather than being green or part of a user community. The study is in the Journal of Consumer Research.
 
The investigation 2 is part of more general research about what's called access-based consumption, basically very short-term rental 3, which has grown due to economic recession and the cramped 4 quarters of big cities.
 
In the interview with Zipcar users, researchers found that they tend to behave selfishly and don't worry about how their treatment of the cars affects the next guy. As one user interviewed for the study put it, quo" you can just beat the hell out of it, it's not your car."
 
And since users assume everyone else is behaving the same way, they appreciate the rules that the company does try to enforce about, for example, cleanliness. Not surprisingly, these attitudes don't engender 5 a feeling of community because the condition of your temporary car depends on the users who cared the least about it.
 
Thanks for the minute for scientific American sixty seconds. I'm Evelyn Lamb.

1 dwellers
n.居民,居住者( dweller的名词复数 )
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes. 城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They have transformed themselves into permanent city dwellers. 他们已成为永久的城市居民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
3 rental
n.租赁,出租,出租业
  • The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
  • We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。
4 cramped
a.狭窄的
  • The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence. 房子十分狭小拥挤,但经纪人却把它说成是小巧别致的住宅。
  • working in cramped conditions 在拥挤的环境里工作
5 engender
v.产生,引起
  • A policy like that tends to engender a sense of acceptance,and the research literature suggests this leads to greater innovation.一个能够使员工产生认同感的政策,研究表明这会走向更伟大的创新。
  • The sense of injustice they engender is a threat to economic and political security.它们造成的不公平感是对经济和政治安全的威胁。
学英语单词
5-cyanoindole
balsam families
beechgrove
block heater
botstein
butirosin
Camargue, Parc Naturel Régional de
capture marriage
cement grout
chopper-copper
combination juice
commissioned buying and shipment
common straight carbon steel
common-mode voltage gaim
containment hydrogen recombination system
copper strip corrosion
counter-speech
curriculum-based
cuvier
Davy Crockett hat
defence products revenue
disaccustoms
dissociative laser
downcard
einav
enthetic
epiparasite
factual journalism
feag
feature concentration
field referee
field tests of the two type of varieties
flat crystal spectrometer
flexible box
foil-borne condition
frapping
functional accomodation
Gagea sacculifera
genus cepphuss
gharra
Groupist
heater-cathode insulation current
hedychium coronarium koen.
hipt
Hogeland
house decorator
ideal permeability
information-handling
insidiator macracanthus
iroko wood
jumping table
Liesti
light maintenance
low-bush blueberry
maintenance stores
manurances
mini-cruise
minigastrin
ministates
Mlicrococcus gelatinosus
modified Gallego elastic tissue staining
multimode measurement technique
multiple T-maze
Neusorg
Noguchi's reaction
odet
opal codon
overyear storage
P. T. O.
parts by weights
physical operations
picquier
pigment cup
plantar intercuneiform ligaments
Pongsan-gun
radial displacement
ramus opercularis n. fac.
re entry
rear wheel hub cap
residue of property
root circle
shatei
shibs
shudderingly
Soberano
specialist's short-sale ratio
steel-cored aluminum wire
sterolin
strongroom
struck up
summation convention
Taiyuan Formation
takes a crap
three dimensional contouring
ura-rate
ureteral cyst
ventricaria ventricosa
volume loading
was absorbed in
whosere
wide angle system
zooneuston