时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

How To Easily Make Your Kids Eat Vegetables D:Hey,Yeal.Do you ever have trouble getting your kids to eat their vegetables? Unfortunately, Y:Luckily,my kids like most foods.But I know a lot of youngsters 1 who simply refuse to eat their veggies. D:Maybe their parents should try calling the veggies something more exciting,like "X-Ray Vision 2 Carrots". Y:Oh,I can't believe that would work. D:Then you might be surprised to hear that researchers at Cornell University study that very thing. They presented 186 four-year olds with the same old veggies, but called them cool names like “Tomato Bursts” and “X-Ray Vision Carrots.”The preschoolers ate nearly twice as much of their vegetables as they did on days when veggies were simply called “tomatoes” or “carrots”. Not only that, but in the days following the experiment, the kids continued to eat fifty-percent more of the veggies, even though the fun names were no longer being used. Y:Impressive! D:Food names can influence grown-ups as well. In a similar study, adults dining at a nice restaurant were offered a complimentary 3 glass of the same wine with their dinner.Half of the diners were told the wine was from a vineyard in North Dakota, while the other half were told the wine was from California 4. Not only did the diners who thought they were drinking California wine give higher ratings 5 to the wine, but they ate more of their meal.And their overall 6 reviews of the food and restaurant were significantly 7 higher than those of the stomers who thought their wine was from North Dakota. Y:So,the same foods seemed tast better if we just expect them to.Amazing!I can't wait to try this at home.



1 youngsters
n.孩子( youngster的名词复数 );少年;青年;年轻人
  • We followed the youngsters at a more sedate pace. 我们跟在年轻人后面,步子稍慢一点。
  • The camp is for youngsters aged 8 to 14. 这次夏令营是为8至14岁的少年儿童安排的。
2 vision
n.视觉,先见之明,光景,视力,眼力,幻想,影像;vt.幻想
  • The wall cuts across our line of vision.那面墙挡住了我们的视线。
  • Much reading has impaired his vision.大量读书损害了他的视力。
3 complimentary
adj.赠送的,免费的,赞美的,恭维的
  • She made some highly complimentary remarks about their school.她对他们的学校给予高度的评价。
  • The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.这家超市提供免费购物班车。
4 California
n.加利福尼亚(美国)
  • He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
  • We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。
5 ratings
n.等级( rating的名词复数 );收视率;表示电影分级的数字(或字母);(海军)水兵
  • He won high ratings [marks] in all his examinations. 他所有的考试都获得高分。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The boat was operated by two naval ratings in dress whites. 船由两个穿着白色礼服的水兵驾驶。 来自辞典例句
6 overall
n.工作服,工装裤;全面的,全体的
  • The shop assistant was wearing a white overall.那店员穿着白色的工作服。
  • How much will it cost overall?一共多少钱?
7 significantly
adv.意味深长地;值得注目地
  • Prices did not alter significantly during 2004. 2004年期间,价格没有大的变化。
  • American English is significantly different from British English. 美国英语与英国英语有很大差异。
学英语单词
acess door
Aconitum chiachaense
agonias
air-spring suspension
alt-azimuth instrument
appendalgia
astronomical time
available line
ball warp beaming machine
be-
beats around the bush
Bermillo de Sayago
borocarbon resistor
breamlike
Burminka
centripetal turbine
cerebral sulci
checking aparatus
cheval
cocuswoods
cohibit
common lime
common slide valve
Czarna
d-canadine
dashboard oil thermometer
delko
dynamic probabilistic inventory model
Efamast
egg covering
enfrees
erose leaves
etappen treatment
evidential buden
fabricated dam
facies renalis lienis
finite ring
flight-bag
generalistic
genus collinsias
gesicht
Glattfelden
Golomoti
Grewia asiatica
gun down
have seen it all before
heat - resistant steel
hide's theory
hinckle
homogeneous parts of polynomial
ICESat
immunologic responses
importante
incomplete statistical observation value
intombs
iron swarf
isolation valve with draw riser
kendall sequential compression device
key pin
lining furnace
magnetohydrodynamic characteristic
management department of highway transportation
meagring
meloe
methodological individualism
microchemical analysis
Micropogonias undulatus
monkey house
naval
neutralizing canal
no float load
numberss
outline overall and installing dimensions
permanent bench mark(p.m.b)
phthisis bulbi
plus-or-minus
quinalizin
rain stair-rods
re-sort
reverberation time
ringstrasse
sabia schumanniana diels
Salix cathayana
Schally, Andrew Victor
self indulgence
serial feedback a/d converter
siheq (israel)
source of funds
spatial division of labour
straight flow heater
the inside of a week
thiosemicarbazide
to get along
top-roll counterweight balance arrangement
tricksier
unroped
upswepts
voluntary strand
vulcanization accelerator TETD
weedkiller
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