snake oil
- n.推销者的所谓“万应灵药”;毫无用处(或效果)的推销品
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Not only that : it may also produce the want for the snake oil itself .
不仅如此:它可能还会生产对万金油的需求。
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They 'll react as if you 're selling snake oil .
他们会反应好像你是在贩卖蛇油。
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It will produce snake oil .
它将会生产万金油。
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Study on Composition of Triglycerides from Snake Oil of Naja Naja
眼镜蛇蛇油中甘油三酸酯的成分研究
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It fails to take into account the roles of confidence , stories and snake oil in economic fluctuation .
它没有考虑到信心、故事以及万金油对经济波动产生的影响。
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It would throw everything we 've done into disrepute , could make us look as if we reinvented snake oil .
那会使我们所干的一切名誉扫地,可能使我们显得像是在重新搬出蛇油膏那一套玩艺儿。
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Please . Don 't let the double dealing , snake oil politicians from Beijing share the spoils of this war .
拜托,不要让那些从北京来的里外装好人,油腔滑调的政客分享这次战争的战利品。
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For Sarah Palin and her pals , man-made global warming is nothing but a " bunch of snake oil science " .
对莎拉佩林(sarahpalin)及其同党来说,由人类导致的全球变暖不过是些“江湖科学”。
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The authors rightly eschew the determinism peddled by the snake oil salesmen of futurology .
报告作者正确地避开了未来学贩卖者散播的决定论。
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On the other hand , when confidence is high , and since financial assets are hard to evaluate by those who are buying them , people will and do buy snake oil .
另一方面,当信心过高时,由于购买金融资产的人难以对这些资产进行估值,人们将愿意并且确实会购买万金油。
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Methods to encourage the regrowth of hair have been around since the time of ancient Egypt , when techniques included the application of snake oil or the menstrual blood of virgins .
促进毛发再生的方法自古埃及以来便已存在,当时人们采用的材料包括蛇油或处女经血等。
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After all , the field of antiaging drugs is littered with compounds that failed to live up to their hype or were hardly more than snake oil .
毕竟在抗衰老药物的销售中,充满了天花乱坠的虚假宣传,有些干脆不如说是万金油。
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But there 's going to be a lot of snake oil on the market in the decades , if not centuries , before we can come up with any more solid prescriptions to save our highest creative selves from brain rot.
可是到人类能够找出能挽救创造性的自我免于老化的更可靠配方前,在未来的几十或者数百年中市场上肯定将会出现许多冒牌货。