snake oil

snake oil

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• n.推銷者的所謂“萬應靈藥”；狗皮膏藥（毫無用處或效果的推銷品）
• 網絡蛇油；騙人的萬靈油；蛇油公司

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

英英解釋

例句

For Sarah Palin and her pals, man-made global warming is nothing but a "bunch of snake oil science" .

對莎拉?佩林（SarahPalin）及其同黨來說，由人類導致的全球變暖不過是些“江湖科學”。

it would throw everything we ' ve done into disrepute , could make us look as if we reinvented snake oil.

那會使我們所干的一切名譽掃地，可能使我們顯得像是在重新搬出蛇油膏那一套玩藝兒。

if you get better after taking the snake oil , no one can tell whether it was the snake oil or whether you would have got better anyway.

如果你用了蛇油，沒有人能告訴你到底是蛇油發揮了作用，還是你自然而然康復了。

Unhappily for the president, many voters appear to be buying this snake oil.

正是出于對總統的不滿，很多投票者開始傾向于相信這種鬼話。

Snake oil should not be substitute for professional medical or health advice, examination, diagnosis, or treatment.

不能讓狗皮膏藥來替代專業的醫療診斷和治療。snakeoil蛇油，狗皮膏藥。

Please. Don't let the double dealing, snake oil politicians from Beijing share the spoils of this war.

拜托，不要讓那些從北京來的里外裝好人，油腔滑調的政客分享這次戰爭的戰利品。

His predecessors include the snake - oil man and the door-to-door purveyor of anything from brushes to Britannicas.

他以前被稱為萬金油販，挨門小販，販賣從刷子到大不列顛百科全書的各種商品。

All of these things act to remove any type of protective coating, whether it's a high quality protectant or an inexpensive snake oil.

所有這些情況，都可能清除掉任何保護層，不管它是質量最好的還是便宜的蛇油。

A phrase like "mental fitness" is bound to attract charlatans and snake-oil salesmen.

像“心理適應能力”這樣的措辭，必然會吸引騙子和推銷員。

Now, the Obama administration is evidently worried that it bought economic snake oil from Keynesians like Krugman.

而如今，奧巴馬政府顯然是在擔心自己是不是從克魯格曼這樣的凱恩斯主義者那里買到了毫無作用的推銷品。

In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.

無論如何，在房產泡沫高點兜售的某些騙人的金融方式則不利于儲蓄。

The term " professor" has been attached to bartenders, magicians and snake oil salesman, as well as academics.

“教授”這一術語除了用來稱呼學者，也已與調酒師，魔術師以及蛇油銷售人員掛鉤。

The authors rightly eschew the determinism peddled by the snake oil salesmen of futurology.

報告作者正確地避開了未來學販賣者散播的決定論。

As weeks go by, that makes him sound more like a seller of snake-oil than of snake-blood.

但隨著時間的推移，這一論斷聽上去使他更像是一個蛇油小販，而不是能為大家帶來蛇血的人。

It fails to take into account the roles of confidence, stories and snake oil in economic fluctuation.

它沒有考慮到信心、故事以及萬金油對經濟波動產生的影響。

Snake oil salesmen would falsely claim that the potions would cure any ailments.

蛇油銷售人員謊稱該藥能治任何疾病。

First, it has a duty to regulate asset markets so that people are not falsely lured into buying snake-oil assets.

首先，它有責任去監管資產市場，這樣人們才不會被誤導購買萬金油資產。

Not only that: it may also produce the want for the snake oil itself.

不僅如此：它可能還會生產對萬金油的需求。

The term snake oil comes from the 19th-century American practice of selling cure-all elixirs in traveling medicine shows.

蛇油這個術語出自19世紀在旅游藥展上銷售包治百病的萬能藥的美國做法。

Selling need not be about snake oil and ripping people off.

推銷沒必要都賣蛇油（萬用藥）或是欺騙客戶。

The most obvious is quality control: the market is infested with snake-oil salesmen, and they are harder to spot from half a world away.

最明顯的就是質量的把關：市場上到處是一無是處的推銷員，繞了半個地球想發現他們更難。

There are snake-oil salesmen in every line of business.

在各行各業都有賣“萬靈油”的推銷員。

Progress in the Research of Snake Oil

蛇油的研究進展

STEP 3: Generating X. 509 certificate signed by Snake Oil CA [server. crt]

步驟3：生成SnakeOilCA簽署的X.509證書[server.crt]