时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:各大品牌英文介绍


英语课

The Barbie doll is one of the most successful toys in history. It was launched in 1959 by the U.S. toy manufacturer Mattel. It has since become a cultural icon 1. American businesswoman Ruth Handler came up with the idea of an adult doll for small girls after seeing her daughter dressing 2 up paper dolls. The name ‘Barbie’ comes from Handler’s own daughter Barbara. Over 350,000 dolls were sold in the first year. Over a billion Barbies have been sold since. Clever marketing 3 means toy execs keep Barbie up with the times. They adjust to every cultural challenge and change. Her waist was recently widened to avoid stereotypes 4 that women must be thin. She also sports a tattoo 5 on her back. Sales are also boosted by a range of pets, cars and accessories – everything the young woman might need.


 



1 icon
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
2 dressing
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
  • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
  • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
3 marketing
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
4 stereotypes
n.老套,模式化的见解,有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
  • Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
  • It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调,我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 tattoo
n.纹身,(皮肤上的)刺花纹;vt.刺花纹于
  • I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
  • He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。
学英语单词
2-propylpentamide
act of company
actual output
alateen
Angelista
annulo-spiral
Australian English
auto-correlated error
autonomous shift register circuit
back slang it
ballistic intercontinental missile
believe that water can flow uphill
beyond the compass of
burnishing power
cannon
carcass judging
cardionatrin
centre drawer hinge
character misregistration
chinese script
cinnamomea
closed pneumothorax
cloth-caps
cold-front-like sea breeze
conference hall
confinement feeding
divicine
dolphinaria
dry sheep
emergency coolant system
encoil
eslior
fish migration
frequency-modulated signal
gentianopsid proceras
gravity true specific
green bag
ground cherries
hinged bow
hydroelectricities
hydropathicity
I kid you not.
inspection of skin
instrumental contour
intrachorionic
jannings
keelyvine
kuroko ore
La Sirena
Latin American art
likelihood analysis
live separate
lone-form auditor,s report
Lycopodiella
Matangi
minor surgeries
montezumas
mortifyingly
multiple purpose tester
navigation star
non-expressive
normal error recovery
noxious solvent
of easy virtue
orderest
organization analysis
p-pictures
peggies
permanent-magnet loudspeaker
polydora triglanda
processing power
prodegradant
prolocutor
psychotypologically
pyrogram
range-range navigation system
Retamyein
sea snakes
self-releasing
selfmaintaining ecosystem
sepsometer
share of machine handling operation
shendship
short-channel mosfet
snow totalizer
social-media
steroscopic
Styrax grandiflorus
subsystem diagram
survey of earnings by occupation
tell the world
threw your hat into the ring
tree of the gods
Tuath, Loch
unipolar extremity lead
unit diagnosis
vaginal fornix
velvet-like
versatile person
vughts
Walmsley
yocto-metre