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【英语语言学习】诚信现在还重要吗

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Donald Trump1: The CNN reporter, an absolutely horrible reporter, she starts off saying, 'Oh look, the room is half empty,' everybody was standing2 right next to me in the front of the room.
Journalist: Well, make no mistake, everything you just heard Donald Trump say is wrong. Here again is Randi Kaye:
Randi Kaye: Here's some video around the same time, and notice the many empty seats in the back of the room. Not everyone was standing, and the empty seats were empty because they were never occupied.
Antony Funnell: I am by no means the first person to point out that Donald Trump has serious problems with the truth. Hello, Antony Funnell here, welcome to Future Tense.
Let me put some figures to that statement. You'll like this; late last year the website Politico went on the hustings3 with Trump and they calculated that he averages at least one 'mistruth' every five minutes.
Then there's the fact-checking site Politifact. I've got it here. Oh yes, they've calculated that 76% of the statements he makes are false. 76%! Amazing really. Perhaps he's in a class of his own, but politics, we shouldn't forget, has long been home to quite a few 'misstatement' makers4.
Bill Clinton: But I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky…
George W Bush: Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums, taken greater risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction.
Bill Clinton: Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact it was wrong.
Antony Funnell: Now, I don't want to beat up on American presidents, or would-be presidents, because lies and deception5 have no borders. From Donald Trump to 'native' advertising6 to online 'influencers', our understanding of honesty and deception seems to be getting increasingly blurry7. But are we, in fact, far more comfortable as a society with high levels of exaggeration, spin and even lying? Do we naturally discount for deceit? And does the media we use actively8 encourage and even reward deception? They're some of the questions we'll seek to answer today.
Leonard Saxe: It's very hard to tell whether things have changed. Politicians have always lied, people have always used deceptive9 techniques to get what they wanted. What's curious today is that whether it's a political figure, whether it's a business person, whether it's a person in medicine or science or law, when they lie, we actually have the tools, we have Google and we have other ways of finding out rather quickly whether someone is telling the truth or not, and they still do it. That's a little surprising to me.
Antony Funnell: Leonard Saxe, Professor of Social Policy at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.
Leonard Saxe: One of the problems is that they may not perceive it as a lie. In other words a lie is typically described as something that you know to be false. So a famous quote…one of our great presidents, John Kennedy, was interviewed on the 90th day after being elected President in the United States, and the reporter asked him what surprised you the most about becoming President, and he said that what surprised him was that things were actually as bad, in fact worse, than he had claimed that they were during the campaign. What is happening now is just an exaggeration of it.
By the way, a politician may lie because they think they are doing it for the greater good. They genuinely believe that if they are elected, the country, the world, society will be better, and whatever it takes to get there they are going to do.
Part of the problem in the public fora is that there is so much information out there, even though there have been many articles about the voracity10 of what presidential candidates in America are saying, people only read now those things that they want to read. You can select the news, you can select the analyses that you read, and so you don't have to worry about being exposed to facts that may not agree with what you think or the person that you've agreed to support thinks.
Antony Funnell: And leaves us more vulnerable to being deceived in certain ways.
Leonard Saxe: It leads us to create a world in our own heads, and in the long term is probably not healthy. We have problems, whether it's climate change or race relations or fundamental issues about the economy where to the extent that we are not willing to listen to other people's views, that we are looking for yes/no answers, simple answers, not complicated answers, we are not going to be able to collectively dissolve the problems that we face together.
Many times we don't tell the truth because we want to be good, we want to be nice. We might tell our spouse11 dinner was wonderful, even if it wasn't. They look beautiful. There are lots of things that we say simply because it's polite. It shows the other person that we respect them, we love them, we care for them, it's not a nefarious12 goal.
Antony Funnell: The time in which we live is a time of considerable exaggeration, particularly in marketing13. And even in the way we speak, everything is terrific, it's awesome14, it's wonderful. Does that, coupled with the fact that opinion is now so much a part of our public discourse15 these days, do those factors make for a conducive16 environment for deception?
Leonard Saxe: I think they do. I think that in order to be heard today to get through all of the information, social media that envelops17 us, the information explosion around us, people have to speak louder, they have to say more dramatic things in order to get others to pay attention to them.
Antony Funnell: Do you think though that we realise that a lot of this is embellishment?
Leonard Saxe: I think even at a conscious level we recognise that they are not correct. Once we know that something is advertising, we know to pay attention to it, to be more sceptical about the information than if we know that it's news. One of the problems is that it's becoming harder to distinguish news from opinion from advertising, and again, it is part of living in a world where there has been an information explosion and where we are saturated18 by social media.
Antony Funnell: And you only have to think about a reputable news source like the Guardian19 to see how things are changing, how the line between truth and falsity is getting blurred20. The Guardian is a global supplier of reputable news, but its online sites are also platforms for 'native' advertising, a fancy term for advertisements dressed up to look like news stories. And why are they dressed up that way? Well, to deceive you of course.
Then there are the people online they call 'influencers'.
Journalist: This is the CBS evening news. 18-year-old Essena O'Neill often got paid for product placements in her posts because the Australian blogger had about half a million followers21 on Instagram, on top of 200,000 followers on YouTube, and 60,000 more on Snapchat. She recently ditched those accounts.
Essena O'Neill: My point is, getting…
Antony Funnell: When Essena O'Neill made a tearful public apology last year it went around the world, as you can hear. She openly admitted that she'd made up to $2,000 a pop simply by posing in photos with products that various marketing agencies had asked her to endorse22. In other words, she pretended to like certain products in order to make money, or, in marketing speak, to 'monetise her following'. She also revealed that such manipulation was widespread. That many young people with a significant online following do exactly the same thing.
So, a straight out case of deceit? Well, Dr Sven Brodmerkel says in the modern world it's not always going to be seen in those terms. He's an Assistant Professor for Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communications at Bond University in Queensland.
Sven Brodmerkel: Does it appear as dishonest? It might be and it might not actually appear because, again, you need to think about what is actually the dishonesty here. If you ask influencers 'are you being paid for supporting this particular product online', and they would say 'no', they are obviously dishonest. If you don't ask, they would probably argue 'I'm not actually really dishonest'. But I think what also comes into play is the idea that even if they were paid for making these particular comments or advertising or talking about particular products, you could also approach from the perspective, hmm, maybe this particular person actually really believes that this particular product or service is really great and worth talking about. So we already have different perspectives for what is dishonest.
So he might be dishonest and not disclosing that he is being paid for it, but he or she might be honest in actually the personal evaluation23 of this particular product. And then again we see this whole idea of, oh, it doesn't matter that much whether he is actually really honest in one particular aspect of what he does, but he is authentic24 in that he or she is really invested in this particular subculture or knows about these particular products or services in depth because he has a history in this particular area or so forth25. So again, for the influencer as such, the aim or the goal is more or less to represent themselves as authentic and not so much as necessarily honest in this binary26 way.
Antony Funnell: And of course for advertisers, the type of advertising that they would want or the types of products that they would want an influencer to push would be products that would be believable for that influencer in their life given who they are, their age, their sorts of likes and dislikes that would be believable for them to actually promote.
Sven Brodmerkel: Exactly. So when you look at how agencies who are actually established contacts between marketers and influencers, how they work, they would actually really argue and drive marketers towards this particular view, saying if you want to hire an influencer with us, you need to make sure that this is actually an authentic person who is believable in the context of your product or service.
Antony Funnell: And the influencer is popular now or influential27 (pardon the pun) because of a distrust that many of us now have in the world for the expert.
Sven Brodmerkel: Yes, probably are. So there is a certain scepticism now in society I guess overall against claims to truth in general, and against snobby28 experts who are supposed to tell us what we should like or buy. And of course this has become even more prevalent and important in the context of social media, and this is why influencer marketing has become even more a kind of holy grail in marketing because we now have social media, you can hire influencers who have a large following, and in the end you can measure more precisely29 what they are actually up to and to what their influence actually leads in terms of engagement within their circle of followers and friends.
Antony Funnell: And the influencer seems more like a real person rather than an expert who, as you say, might be suspect. But again, that's ironic30 isn't it that you've got somebody who is being deceptive who seems to be more truthful31 than somebody else.
Sven Brodmerkel: It's definitely a paradoxical thing. We are looking for the real thing, for the authentic thing, but in the end more and more aspects are driven by commercial interests or at least infiltrated32 by commercial interests, and I think that's the main distinction here. We used to think about the untainted realm of non-commercial life and the tainted33 part of commercial life, and this is more and more interacting and blurring34 now. And in a sense, yes, it is definitely paradoxical; we are looking for the real thing but we might actually get the same thing we always got.
Antony Funnell: Dr Sven Brodmerkel from Bond University. And you're listening to Future Tense. I'm Antony Funnell.
Let's stay with Dr Brodmerkel and that idea of honesty being multi-layered and dependant35 on context, and a warning; in the next part of this interview we do use what some people might consider strong language.
Sven Brodmerkel: I would argue that in most more complex social situations, the situations don't appear to us as just the option between A and B, true or false, but they are basically a kind of mixture, a kind of intermingling of so many different factors that it becomes really hard for us to decide is this true or is this false, but maybe something in between.
Antony Funnell: And that in between…you are taken by a philosopher at Princeton named Henry Frankfurt who talks about an in between level that he calls bullshit. Tell us how bullshit fits in this. So there's various layers, there is truth, there's lies and then there's bullshit. What is he mean by bullshit?
Sven Brodmerkel: Basically his argument is that, say, a liar36 does care about truth because he wants to misrepresent the truth. A bullshitter doesn't care that much about truth anymore because he has something totally different in mind, he wants to basically misrepresent what he is up to in the broader sense. And bullshit then becomes a not so much a misrepresentation of particular truth but just more a panoramic37 reframing of the context that guides us to interpret certain facts.
Antony Funnell: So just to be clear there, a lie is connected to honesty because you are wanting to misrepresent a situation.
Sven Brodmerkel: Yes, a very specific fact or situation.
Antony Funnell: But bullshit then is a fact that you give out, and you don't care whether it's right or wrong, whether it's correct or not, because what you are trying to do there is set a general sort of feeling or to give somebody a broader sense of where you are coming from or where you want to go. And Trump is a classic example of that, isn't he.
Sven Brodmerkel: He probably is. So we see here basically the phenomenon of what we in advertising would probably call branding, where you try to establish certain coordinates38, emotional, effective coordinates, a frame so to speak that guides people or tells people how they are supposed to interpret certain facts. And even sometimes if it's not the perfect truth or even a misrepresentation, it becomes somewhat integrated in the overall brand image of the plain speaking, outspoken39, even sometimes outrageous40 brand of Donald Trump.
Antony Funnell: So it doesn't matter if you or I look at someone like Donald Trump and we say, okay, what he has just said there is a lie and can be proved to be a lie, people who support him don't necessarily see it as a lie, they are happy just to think, well, on balance what he is saying is what I want to hear and I don't want to talk about the specifics of what is correct and what's not.
Sven Brodmerkel: That's probably exactly how it works. And we need to keep in mind that actually separating more complex situations of a complex issue, separating truth from fact is actually a pretty laborious41, cognitively42 demanding task, because when we think about broader issues or even the broadest ones like climate change, how do we actually separate truth from fiction, who was right, who was wrong, so we rather tend to go with a kind of gut43 feeling, and the gut feeling is guided by bullshit, the broader frame of reference that these people actually establish. So they not necessarily care that much about honesty but more about authenticity44. Am I authentic in my image of being the plain, outspoken, maybe even outrageous character that I represent, try to represent myself to be.
[Colbert Report montage of 'truthiness']
Dan Ariely: My name is Dan Ariely, and I am the James B Duke Professor of Psychology45 and Behavioural Economics at Duke University.
So when we think about honesty and dishonesty, the standard approach is to think about there's a few bad apples out there and everybody else is just wonderful. And what happens is that it's true that there are a few bad apples out there but it's not true that everybody else is wonderful. Everybody else thinks of themselves as being wonderful, but when we actually tempt46 people to steal money from us and we bring people to the lab and we tempt them to steal money, we find that lots of people cheat a little bit. And just to give you some numbers, we've done these experiments on more than 40,000 people, and we find less than a handful that cheat a lot, and we found tens of thousands that cheat a little bit. And we lost very little money to the big cheaters and we lost a tonne of money to the little cheaters because there are just so many of them, actually us, right, it's everybody.
Antony Funnell: I know you do various tests regarding honesty. Just give us a bit of an idea though of your main test, which is called the matrix task.
Dan Ariely: I'll actually give you one that is slightly simpler. I give people a six-sided die, and I say toss the die, we'll see whatever it comes up and I will pay you whatever it comes up, six is six dollars, five is five dollars and so on. But you can get paid based on the top side or bottom, top or bottom, you decide, but don't tell me. So I say, okay, hold the die, did you decide top or bottom? Yes. I say don't tell me, now toss the die. And let's say you tossed it and it came with five on the bottom and two on the top, and once we see the result, now I say, okay, what did you decide, top or bottom? Because it's two on the top and five on the bottom, if you say bottom you get five dollars, if you say top you get two dollars. So if you chose bottom, there's no problem, you say the truth. But if you chose top, now you have a dilemma47; do you say the truth, that you really chose the top and you deserve two dollars, or do you change your mind after the fact?
And what we find when we run these experiments is that people are really lucky! When people do this 20 times and every time they think top or bottom, top or bottom, they get the correct response more than 50% of the time. Of course it's not that people are lucky, it's that people are lying just a little bit, and lots of people are lying a little bit.
Antony Funnell: So an awful lot of us, whether we like to admit it or not, lie a little. And you say dishonesty is contagious48 in that it's connected to social acceptability. Just explain that a bit more to us.
Dan Ariely: Yes, just think about it for a second, about what causes people to be honest and dishonest. It turns out it's not about the probability of being caught, is not about the size of the punishment, it's about what do we feel comfortable with. And what we feel comfortable with is the function of what other people around us are doing. So think about something like illegal downloads. I'm not going to ask you if you have any illegal downloads on your computer, but when I ask American undergrads they all say they do, and they all say they don't really care, they don't find it immoral49. What happens is that because everybody else is doing it, it kind of went out of the moral domain50. And we find similar results. So different countries have it's okay to bribe51 a policeman but not a public official. Different countries have all kinds of rules about what's acceptable, and those are very much social rules. And in our experiments we can show very easily that you could get people to behave a certain way and other people just gravitate to that behaviour.
Antony Funnell: So there's got to be social acceptability there, but as you say, there's also got to be an ability for each individual to rationalise their behaviour as being okay, even though they know they are being deceptive or they are lying.
Dan Ariely: That's right, and the word 'knowing' here is kind of tricky52 because what we find is that dishonesty is often about wishful blindness, it's about people not thinking very carefully about what they are doing. And at the moment they just kind of follow their gut motivation. So we have a selfish motivation to seek more profits, to see the world from our perspective and so on. And the question is do we stop and think about it carefully or do we just go with this intuition. In the same way that every sports fan knows that if they go to a game and the referee54 calls a call against their team, they can't see the referee as anything but evil, vile55, stupid, blind, you know, something like that.
Our motivation to see the game in a certain way causes us to see it in a certain way, and the same thing for conflicts of interest. If we are banker and we get paid for one thing versus56 another, if we are a politician and we have friends who are lobbyists and want us to vote one way or another, in all of those cases we want to see reality in a certain way and we use our ability to bend reality and see it in a way that is compatible with what we wanted to see and ignoring objective reality, and with that become very selfish.
Antony Funnell: But we still want to believe that we are honest, that's crucial here isn't it.
Dan Ariely: That's right, and that's why we don't cheat a lot. You see, what happens is we are trying to balance feeling good about ourselves and benefiting from dishonesty. And if we cheated a lot we couldn't help but say, hey, my goodness, I'm a cheater. But as long as we cheat just a little bit and we can rationalise it, that's where we can perfectly57 explain to ourselves. This is also why we find that creative people cheat more. What happens is that creative people can tell a better story, they can weave a better tale and they can manage to cheat more and still tell themselves a story about why what they are doing is actually okay.
Antony Funnell: Does that help explain to us why our world at the moment seems to be filled with so much dishonesty? A lot of our advertising is exaggeration or filled with just straight-out untruths. And the same is often said of politics. Is there an explanation here that you can give us?
Dan Ariely: There are multiple explanations. The first one of course is that if people in advertising think that everybody else is doing it, that becomes acceptable. People don't feel bad about it. If people can look at their competitors and say they have done X and they say it must be the standard, it's okay. So that's one thing that just happens as a social norm, and the same thing happens with politicians.
But in politicians we also found something else. We have the election season now in the US and lots of lying and deception is going on, and we looked at what people want from their politicians, and what we found was that people want the politicians on the other side of the aisle58 to be honest, but they want the politician on their side of the aisle to be dishonest. And why? It's because people are ideological59. They want particular policies. People on the left wing want healthcare and more environmental policies. People on the right want to abolish national healthcare and they want lower taxation60. Whatever people believe in, their belief in the rightness of the policy overwhelms their desire for honesty.
So if you think about it, there are lots of human values out there. One of them is the outcomes that we want. And the question is to what extent are we willing to sacrifice it for honesty? And in politics right now the American public is willing to accept lots of betrayal of honesty for the policies that they want to see enacted61.
Antony Funnell: You also believe, don't you, that some of the systems that we set up actually foster dishonesty or deception, including the notion of the cashless economy.
Dan Ariely: Yes, and there are many ways in which we set things up in a way that is incompatible62 with our ability to rationalise. And one of those of course is conflicts of interest. So we are creating so many systems with conflicts of interest. Of course banking63, politics, healthcare. Imagine a physician who is faced between a choice of something that is better for their patient and something that is better for them financially. And we are not asking whether a physician will do something knowingly against their patient, but we are asking can they actually ignore their financial incentive64, can they fully53 ignore it. And the answer is absolutely no.
And then the other part that you mention is this idea of a distance for money. So when we get people to do these tasks and when they finish doing these tasks they look at the experimenter in the eye and they say, you know, you owe me X amount of money, people cheat a little bit. But when they look them in the eyes and they say you owe me X amount of tokens and then they take these tokens, walk 12 feet to the side and change them for money, our participants doubled their cheating.
And the idea is that when you lie for money it's a very concrete thing, it's like taking money from a petty cash box. But when you are lying for something that is tokens, you can fool yourself that you are actually not that bad. It's like taking office supplies from the office or exaggerating a little bit on expense reports. People just don't feel the connection with that, it's not as clear, people don't feel as bad about these lies.
If you think about the modern economy, a lot of it is about distance, a lot of it is about not cash but credit, stock options, derivatives65, not dealing66 with people directly, dealing with people over great distances, and all of those distances are allowing people to be more dishonest on one side but still think of themselves as being honest on the other.
Antony Funnell: And just finally, for some of us it feels like we are living in a time where there is enormous deception going on on a daily basis or minute by minute basis within our world. It is our society at the moment any more deceptive than previous generations, or are perhaps just some of us more attuned67 to it or is it more in our face?
Dan Ariely: So I think society today is more deceptive, but it's not because people are worse in their nature. It's not as if the generation X, Y or Z are kind of worse people. But if you think about this idea of distance from other people and you say that what we are doing now is we are dealing more and more with people who we don't know, do you think about the social amplification68 of bad behaviour, we are in a time and place in history where we see lots of what other people are doing. We pay particular attention to the bad behaviours.
Right now think about the presidential candidates in the US. We basically every day hear all the things that they've said every day. It's really easy to get how many lies they've said every day. This was not something that was available 50 years ago. So our exposure to those things is much higher. Our understanding of them is much higher. And the distance we have from other people is much higher. So I think what's happening now is technology is getting the same types of people to actually behave in much worse ways.
Antony Funnell: No offence intended of course. Our guests today on Future Tense were Dan Ariely, from Duke University, Leonard Saxe from Brandeis University, also in the United States, and Sven Brodmerkel from Bond University in Australia.
My co-producer on this show is Karin Zsivanovits, the sound engineer Steve Fieldhouse. I'm Antony Funnell, until next time, cheers!

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1 trump LU1zK     
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
参考例句:
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
2 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
3 hustings MywyC     
n.竞选活动
参考例句:
  • With only days to go before elections in Pakistan,candidates are battling it out at the hustings.离巴基斯坦大选只有几天的时间了,各候选人正在竞选活动上一决胜负。
  • Most politicians will be at the hustings in the coming week.大多数政治家将在下周展开竞选活动。
4 makers 22a4efff03ac42c1785d09a48313d352     
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
参考例句:
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 deception vnWzO     
n.欺骗,欺诈;骗局,诡计
参考例句:
  • He admitted conspiring to obtain property by deception.他承认曾与人合谋骗取财产。
  • He was jailed for two years for fraud and deception.他因为诈骗和欺诈入狱服刑两年。
6 advertising 1zjzi3     
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
参考例句:
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
7 blurry blurry     
adj.模糊的;污脏的,污斑的
参考例句:
  • My blurry vision makes it hard to drive. 我的视力有点模糊,使得开起车来相当吃力。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The lines are pretty blurry at this point. 界线在这个时候是很模糊的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 actively lzezni     
adv.积极地,勤奋地
参考例句:
  • During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
  • We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
9 deceptive CnMzO     
adj.骗人的,造成假象的,靠不住的
参考例句:
  • His appearance was deceptive.他的外表带有欺骗性。
  • The storyline is deceptively simple.故事情节看似简单,其实不然。
10 voracity JhbwI     
n.贪食,贪婪
参考例句:
  • Their voracity is legendary and even the most hardened warriors cannot repress a shiver if one speaks about them. 他们的贪食是传奇性的,甚至强壮的战士也会因为提起他们而无法抑制的颤抖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He ate with the voracity of a starving man. 他饿鬼似的贪婪地吃着。 来自互联网
11 spouse Ah6yK     
n.配偶(指夫或妻)
参考例句:
  • Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
  • What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么?
12 nefarious 1jsyH     
adj.恶毒的,极坏的
参考例句:
  • My father believes you all have a nefarious purpose here.我父亲认为你们都有邪恶的目的。
  • He was universally feared because of his many nefarious deeds.因为他干了许多罪恶的勾当,所以人人都惧怕他。
13 marketing Boez7e     
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
参考例句:
  • 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。
14 awesome CyCzdV     
adj.令人惊叹的,难得吓人的,很好的
参考例句:
  • The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
15 discourse 2lGz0     
n.论文,演说;谈话;话语;vi.讲述,著述
参考例句:
  • We'll discourse on the subject tonight.我们今晚要谈论这个问题。
  • He fell into discourse with the customers who were drinking at the counter.他和站在柜台旁的酒客谈了起来。
16 conducive hppzk     
adj.有益的,有助的
参考例句:
  • This is a more conducive atmosphere for studying.这样的氛围更有利于学习。
  • Exercise is conducive to good health.体育锻炼有助于增强体质。
17 envelops 68935eea55b02ac9aaa70df8e43e9e8b     
v.包围,笼罩,包住( envelop的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • He glued many envelops yesterday. 他昨天用胶粘了许多信封。 来自辞典例句
  • Ask your friends or mother and father to save used envelops for you. 让你的朋友或父母为你留下用过的信封。 来自英语晨读30分(高二)
18 saturated qjEzG3     
a.饱和的,充满的
参考例句:
  • The continuous rain had saturated the soil. 连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。
  • a saturated solution of sodium chloride 氯化钠饱和溶液
19 guardian 8ekxv     
n.监护人;守卫者,保护者
参考例句:
  • The form must be signed by the child's parents or guardian. 这张表格须由孩子的家长或监护人签字。
  • The press is a guardian of the public weal. 报刊是公共福利的卫护者。
20 blurred blurred     
v.(使)变模糊( blur的过去式和过去分词 );(使)难以区分;模模糊糊;迷离
参考例句:
  • She suffered from dizziness and blurred vision. 她饱受头晕目眩之苦。
  • Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears. 他们那种慢吞吞、含糊不清的声音在他听起来却很悦耳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
21 followers 5c342ee9ce1bf07932a1f66af2be7652     
追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件
参考例句:
  • the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
  • The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。
22 endorse rpxxK     
vt.(支票、汇票等)背书,背署;批注;同意
参考例句:
  • No one is foolish enough to endorse it.没有哪个人会傻得赞成它。
  • I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.我完全拥护你对此课题的主张。
23 evaluation onFxd     
n.估价,评价;赋值
参考例句:
  • I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
  • The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。
24 authentic ZuZzs     
a.真的,真正的;可靠的,可信的,有根据的
参考例句:
  • This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
  • Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。
25 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前;向外,往外
参考例句:
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
26 binary jybzWZ     
adj.二,双;二进制的;n.双(体);联星
参考例句:
  • Computers operate using binary numbers.计算机运行运用二进位制。
  • Let us try converting the number itself to binary.我们试一试,把这个数本身变成二进制数。
27 influential l7oxK     
adj.有影响的,有权势的
参考例句:
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
28 snobby 667d10674990d20663977c10de67e90a     
a.虚荣的
参考例句:
  • Can I really tell my snobby friends that I now shop at-egads-Walmart? 天呐,我真得好意思告诉那帮势利的朋友们我在沃尔玛买东西?
29 precisely zlWzUb     
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
参考例句:
  • It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
  • The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
30 ironic 1atzm     
adj.讽刺的,有讽刺意味的,出乎意料的
参考例句:
  • That is a summary and ironic end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局。
  • People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school,but they were being ironic.人们中学时常把我称作“万人迷先生”,但他们是在挖苦我。
31 truthful OmpwN     
adj.真实的,说实话的,诚实的
参考例句:
  • You can count on him for a truthful report of the accident.你放心,他会对事故作出如实的报告的。
  • I don't think you are being entirely truthful.我认为你并没全讲真话。
32 infiltrated ac8114e28673476511d54b771cab25a1     
adj.[医]浸润的v.(使)渗透,(指思想)渗入人的心中( infiltrate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies. 总部混入了敌方特务。
  • Many Chinese idioms have infiltrated into the Japanese language. 许多中国成语浸透到日语中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
33 tainted qgDzqS     
adj.腐坏的;污染的;沾污的;感染的v.使变质( taint的过去式和过去分词 );使污染;败坏;被污染,腐坏,败坏
参考例句:
  • The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
  • He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》
34 blurring e5be37d075d8bb967bd24d82a994208d     
n.模糊,斑点甚多,(图像的)混乱v.(使)变模糊( blur的现在分词 );(使)难以区分
参考例句:
  • Retinal hemorrhage, and blurring of the optic dise cause visual disturbances. 视网膜出血及神经盘模糊等可导致视力障碍。 来自辞典例句
  • In other ways the Bible limited Puritan writing, blurring and deadening the pages. 另一方面,圣经又限制了清教时期的作品,使它们显得晦涩沉闷。 来自辞典例句
35 dependant GmAz6     
n.依靠的,依赖的,依赖他人生活者
参考例句:
  • The dependent dependant cannot live independently.依靠别人的被赡养者不能独立生活。
  • The fact that the woman is still regarded as the man's dependant.再加上女人仍被看作是男人的附属品这一事实。
36 liar V1ixD     
n.说谎的人
参考例句:
  • I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了,一个又偷又骗的家伙!
  • She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。
37 panoramic LK3xM     
adj. 全景的
参考例句:
  • Most rooms enjoy panoramic views of the sea. 大多数房间都能看到海的全景。
  • In a panoramic survey of nature, speed is interesting because it has a ceiling. 概观自然全景,速率是有趣的,因为它有一个上限。
38 coordinates 8387d77faaaa65484f5631d9f9d20bfc     
n.相配之衣物;坐标( coordinate的名词复数 );(颜色协调的)配套服装;[复数]女套服;同等重要的人(或物)v.使协调,使调和( coordinate的第三人称单数 );协调;协同;成为同等
参考例句:
  • The town coordinates on this map are 695037. 该镇在这幅地图上的坐标是695037。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
39 outspoken 3mIz7v     
adj.直言无讳的,坦率的,坦白无隐的
参考例句:
  • He was outspoken in his criticism.他在批评中直言不讳。
  • She is an outspoken critic of the school system in this city.她是这座城市里学校制度的坦率的批评者。
40 outrageous MvFyH     
adj.无理的,令人不能容忍的
参考例句:
  • Her outrageous behaviour at the party offended everyone.她在聚会上的无礼行为触怒了每一个人。
  • Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous.本地电话资费贵得出奇。
41 laborious VxoyD     
adj.吃力的,努力的,不流畅
参考例句:
  • They had the laborious task of cutting down the huge tree.他们接受了伐大树的艰苦工作。
  • Ants and bees are laborious insects.蚂蚁与蜜蜂是勤劳的昆虫。
42 cognitively d28af4705de1f9218cb8ba1d5bdf8372     
参考例句:
  • Cognitively,man,the subject of cognition,must classify and categorize the objects. 从认知学角度来看 ,作为认知主体的人对于认知对象必须进行分类和范畴化。 来自互联网
  • Cognitively, reference can be studied along with information processing of human mind. 从认知的角度看,要研究人类思维的信息处理过程。 来自互联网
43 gut MezzP     
n.[pl.]胆量;内脏;adj.本能的;vt.取出内脏
参考例句:
  • It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
  • My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。
44 authenticity quyzq     
n.真实性
参考例句:
  • There has been some debate over the authenticity of his will. 对于他的遗嘱的真实性一直有争论。
  • The museum is seeking an expert opinion on the authenticity of the painting. 博物馆在请专家鉴定那幅画的真伪。
45 psychology U0Wze     
n.心理,心理学,心理状态
参考例句:
  • She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
  • He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
46 tempt MpIwg     
vt.引诱,勾引,吸引,引起…的兴趣
参考例句:
  • Nothing could tempt him to such a course of action.什么都不能诱使他去那样做。
  • The fact that she had become wealthy did not tempt her to alter her frugal way of life.她有钱了,可这丝毫没能让她改变节俭的生活习惯。
47 dilemma Vlzzf     
n.困境,进退两难的局面
参考例句:
  • I am on the horns of a dilemma about the matter.这件事使我进退两难。
  • He was thrown into a dilemma.他陷入困境。
48 contagious TZ0yl     
adj.传染性的,有感染力的
参考例句:
  • It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
  • He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。
49 immoral waCx8     
adj.不道德的,淫荡的,荒淫的,有伤风化的
参考例句:
  • She was questioned about his immoral conduct toward her.她被询问过有关他对她的不道德行为的情况。
  • It is my belief that nuclear weapons are immoral.我相信使核武器是不邪恶的。
50 domain ys8xC     
n.(活动等)领域,范围;领地,势力范围
参考例句:
  • This information should be in the public domain.这一消息应该为公众所知。
  • This question comes into the domain of philosophy.这一问题属于哲学范畴。
51 bribe GW8zK     
n.贿赂;v.向…行贿,买通
参考例句:
  • He tried to bribe the policeman not to arrest him.他企图贿赂警察不逮捕他。
  • He resolutely refused their bribe.他坚决不接受他们的贿赂。
52 tricky 9fCzyd     
adj.狡猾的,奸诈的;(工作等)棘手的,微妙的
参考例句:
  • I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手,你能帮我吗?
  • He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题,只做了个笼统的表述。
53 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
参考例句:
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
54 referee lAqzU     
n.裁判员.仲裁人,代表人,鉴定人
参考例句:
  • The team was left raging at the referee's decision.队员们对裁判员的裁决感到非常气愤。
  • The referee blew a whistle at the end of the game.裁判在比赛结束时吹响了哨子。
55 vile YLWz0     
adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的
参考例句:
  • Who could have carried out such a vile attack?会是谁发起这么卑鄙的攻击呢?
  • Her talk was full of vile curses.她的话里充满着恶毒的咒骂。
56 versus wi7wU     
prep.以…为对手,对;与…相比之下
参考例句:
  • The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
  • The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
57 perfectly 8Mzxb     
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
58 aisle qxPz3     
n.(教堂、教室、戏院等里的)过道,通道
参考例句:
  • The aisle was crammed with people.过道上挤满了人。
  • The girl ushered me along the aisle to my seat.引座小姐带领我沿着通道到我的座位上去。
59 ideological bq3zi8     
a.意识形态的
参考例句:
  • He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
  • He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作,对我有很大帮助。
60 taxation tqVwP     
n.征税,税收,税金
参考例句:
  • He made a number of simplifications in the taxation system.他在税制上作了一些简化。
  • The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
61 enacted b0a10ad8fca50ba4217bccb35bc0f2a1     
制定(法律),通过(法案)( enact的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • legislation enacted by parliament 由议会通过的法律
  • Outside in the little lobby another scene was begin enacted. 外面的小休息室里又是另一番景象。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
62 incompatible y8oxu     
adj.不相容的,不协调的,不相配的
参考例句:
  • His plan is incompatible with my intent.他的计划与我的意图不相符。
  • Speed and safety are not necessarily incompatible.速度和安全未必不相容。
63 banking aySz20     
n.银行业,银行学,金融业
参考例句:
  • John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
  • He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
64 incentive j4zy9     
n.刺激;动力;鼓励;诱因;动机
参考例句:
  • Money is still a major incentive in most occupations.在许多职业中,钱仍是主要的鼓励因素。
  • He hasn't much incentive to work hard.他没有努力工作的动机。
65 derivatives f75369b9e0ef2282b4d10e367e4ee2a9     
n.衍生性金融商品;派生物,引出物( derivative的名词复数 );导数
参考例句:
  • Many English words are derivatives of Latin words. 许多英语词来自拉丁语。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • These compounds are nitrosohydroxylamine derivatives. 这类合成物是亚硝基羟胺衍生物。 来自辞典例句
66 dealing NvjzWP     
n.经商方法,待人态度
参考例句:
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
67 attuned df5baec049ff6681d7b8a37af0aa8e12     
v.使协调( attune的过去式和过去分词 );调音
参考例句:
  • She wasn't yet attuned to her baby's needs. 她还没有熟悉她宝宝的需要。
  • Women attuned to sensitive men found Vincent Lord attractive. 偏爱敏感男子的女人,觉得文森特·洛德具有魅力。 来自辞典例句
68 amplification pLvyI     
n.扩大,发挥
参考例句:
  • The voice of despair may be weak and need amplification.绝望的呼声可能很微弱,需要扩大。
  • Some of them require further amplification.其中有些内容需进一步详细阐明。
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