單詞
scalper
英 美['sk?lp?]
基本信息
- n. 黃牛（專售戲票等牟利）；剝頭皮的人；雕刻刀，圓鑿子
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?scalpers;
中文詞源
scalper 票販子
來自 scalp,倒賣門票，-er,人。
英文詞源
- scalper (n.)
- 1650s as a type of surgical instrument; 1760 as "one who removes scalps," agent noun from scalp (v.).
Meaning "person who re-sells tickets at unauthorized prices for a profit," 1869, American English; earliest reference is to theater tickets, but often used late 19c. of brokers who sold unused portions of railway tickets. [Railways charged less per mile for longer-distance tickets; therefore someone travelling from New York to Chicago could buy a ticket all the way to San Francisco, get out at Chicago and sell it to a scalper, and come away with more money than if he had simply bought a ticket to Chicago; the Chicago scalper would hold the ticket till he found someone looking for a ticket to San Francisco, then sell it to him at a slight advance, but for less than the official price.] Perhaps from scalp (v.); scalper was a generic term for "con man, cheater" in late 19c. Or perhaps the connecting sense is the bounty offered for scalps of certain destructive animals (attested in New England from 1703) and sometimes Indians (i.e., having only part of something, but still getting paid). Some, though, see a connection rather to scalpel, the surgical instrument.
雙語例句
- 1. Another scalper said he'd charge $1000 for a $125 ticket.
- 另一個(gè)票販子說125美元的票他要價(jià)1,000美元。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. We can try to buy some tickets outside the stadium from a scalper.
- 我們可以試著在體育場外買黃牛票.
來自常春藤生活英語雜志-2006年1月號(hào)
- 3. I bought a fake ticket from a scalper last month.
- 我上個(gè)月從一個(gè)黃牛手里買了一張假票.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 4. You can buy from a scalper outside the ground.
- 你不妨到球場外,試試買張黃牛票.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. A scalper sold us tickets for seats right at near the courtside.
- 一個(gè)票販子賣給我們的票正好靠近球場的邊緣.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
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