时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:2014年Scientific American(三)月


英语课

Lady Gaga's fake finger now and justin timberlake's partly even french toast have fetched big box auction 1 because the seemingly worthless items once belonged to a celebrity 2. Now a study  found that the price depend on how much contact the celebrity had with an item and whether they heroes and vallence.The research is in the precedings of national academy of sciences. Data from auctions 3 will reveal that people will spend more on items like jewelry 4 rather than furniture, at least for a while, folks like JFK or JKO. Items from a wide of celebri.......The finding suggests that people's desire for a celebrity's membria stems from the belief what's called Contagion 5, the idea that a person's essence can be transfered through the object they touched.A follow up experiment further supports the Contagion idea. Participants said  they  would pay substantially less for a celebrity's sterylizing sweater if it had been sterylized. But sterylization actually increased the amount of subjects who would pay for the sweaters owned by a dislike -celebrity. Gives a whole new meaning to money laundering 6.



n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • 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。
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
n.拍卖,拍卖方式( auction的名词复数 )
  • 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
n.(jewllery)(总称)珠宝
  • The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
  • Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。
n.(通过接触的疾病)传染;蔓延
  • A contagion of fear swept through the crowd.一种恐惧感在人群中迅速蔓延开。
  • The product contagion effect has numerous implications for marketing managers and retailers.产品传染效应对市场营销管理者和零售商都有很多的启示。
n.洗涤(衣等),洗烫(衣等);洗(钱)v.洗(衣服等),洗烫(衣服等)( launder的现在分词 );洗(黑钱)(把非法收入改头换面,变为貌似合法的收入)
  • Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering. 洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He was charged with laundering money. 他被指控洗钱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
-philous
abbey lubber
adonivernit
alloy strip
angiosclerotic myasthenia
argue in circle
beat frequency interference pattern
biometric security devices
blast furnace tar
bottle graft
brief a barrister
Brooktondale
bubbling up
cannery offal
capital formation in underdeveloped country
Castro Laboreiro
centrifugal roof ventilator
Chaco Central
chronicled
Condong-kecil, Sungai
deed of priority
DeepMind
delta
diffusing extinction of arc
double loading
elecciones
elementary diagram
fish-house
genus Chelidonium
get the wire crossed
glass ... in
heat-resistor
helm
hosner
i-waned
inspection code for special equipment
insurmountably
interpreter transfer
interstate commerce commission act
iron-bearing material
jeffco
Kaywan
kneehole desk
kozogami
legal requirements of banks
Levenshterna, Mys
louisa
make a name for oneself
malvasia
masalit
master data base
micro-microcomputer
Monod
moving target gain
neaderthal
near-offset section
neckeropsis lepineana monf.
notched (bar)impact test
nujs
number of theoretical plates
obligatory treaty
oil purifying system
orthonormal sequence
out-holl
panther lilies
phantasticall
pinkney
planned money system
Pseudosillimanite
Pycreus flavidus
pyridylacetic acid(HPAC)
sailing-ship
salangane
scrape an acquaintance with someone
secoajmalan
shakiness
silicite (labradorite)
similar argument
slow pain
sopped up
spectrum locus
stickbuilt
storage more than one year
strip-light
sub-millimeter
subnecting
superficial fascia of penis
sustained yield management
sword guard
syntactic specification
through the Nose
touchless
tousle
trade to
turse
two-colour temperature
uncondensable
undersize product
vug porosity
walnut cream
weight to power ratio of solar array
Westhofen