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Today, Americans are finding their own tips and tricks for fixing malfunctioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
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In post-war Japan, the economy wasn’t doing so great, so you couldn’t get everyday-use items like household cleaners, says Lisa Katayama, author of Urawaza, a book named after the Japanese term for clever lifestyle tips and tricks, So people looked for ways to do with what they had.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
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You actually love tipping! You like to feel that you have a voice in how much money your server makes.
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Waiters, keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn't believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.
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Waiters deserve better than just relying on tips for a living.
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Tips make it more difficult to please customers.
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Tips benefit the boss rather that the employees.
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That's because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying his servers an actual living wage.
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So come on, folks: get on board with ditching the outdated tip system.
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Service quality has little effect on tip size.
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Restaurants should calculate the tips for customers.
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One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you.
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No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.
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Most of you probably think that you hate tipping, too.
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It is in human nature to try to save on tips.
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I hate tipping.
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He lives comfortably without getting any tips.
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He intends to get rid of the tipping practice.
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He gives his staff a considerable sum for tips.
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Customers should pay more tips to help improve service.
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But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.
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But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.
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Despite having a brain no bigger than the tip of your index finger, pigeons have a very impressive visual memory.
2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
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finally, the FBI received a tip that the stolen document was located very close to Washington, D.C.
2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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N-COUNT
末梢;尖端;顶端
The tip of something long and narrow is the end of it.
例句
The sleeves covered his hands to the tips of his fingers...
袖子遮住了他的手,一直盖到指尖。
She poked and shifted things with the tip of her walking stick...
她用手杖尖翻拨挪动东西。
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V-ERG
(使)倾斜;(使)斜侧
If you tip an object or part of your body or if it tips, it moves into a sloping position with one end or side higher than the other.
例句
He leaned away from her, and she had to tip her head back to see him...
他倾着身子避开她,她不得不把头向后歪着看他。
A young boy is standing on a stool, reaching for a cookie jar, and the stool is about to tip...
一个小男孩正站在凳子上,伸手够一个曲奇罐子,凳子眼看就要歪了。
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VERB
倾倒;倒出
If you tip something somewhere, you pour it there.
例句
Tip the vegetables into a bowl...
把蔬菜倒进碗里。
She took out the plate, stared blankly at the dried-up food on it, and tipped it into the bin…
她拿出盘子,茫然地望着上面已经干掉的食物,然后把它倒进了垃圾桶。
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VERB
扔掉,倒掉(垃圾)
To tip rubbish means to get rid of it by leaving it somewhere.
例句
...the costs of tipping rubbish in landfills...
在废弃物填埋场倾倒垃圾的成本
How do you stop people tipping?...
你怎样阻止人们乱倒垃圾呢?
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垃圾场
A tip is a place where rubbish is left.
例句
Officers had found a large bread knife on the rubbish tip…
警察在垃圾场发现了一把很大的面包刀。
I took a load of rubbish and grass cuttings to the tip.
我把一堆垃圾与修剪下的碎草运到了垃圾场。
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脏乱的场所
If you describe a place as a tip, you mean it is very untidy.
例句
The flat is an absolute tip.
这套公寓简直就是个垃圾场。
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VERB
给…小费
If you tip someone such as a waiter in a restaurant, you give them some money in order to thank them for their services.
例句
Do you really think it's customary to tip the waiters?...
你真的认为给侍者小费是约定俗成的吗?
She tipped the barmen 10 dollars and bought drinks all round.
她给了吧台服务员 10 美元小费,还请在场的所有人喝了酒。
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小费
If you give a tip to someone such as a waiter in a restaurant, you give them some money to thank them for their services.
例句
I gave the barber a tip...
我给了理发师小费。
The Head Porter was keeping all the tips.
行李员领班扣留了所有人的小费。
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诀窍;忠告;指导
A tip is a useful piece of advice.
例句
It shows how to prepare a CV, and gives tips on applying for jobs.
它说明了如何准备简历,并就如何申请职位提了些建议。
…tips for busy managers…
给繁忙的经理们的忠告
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VERB
认定…会(做某事或获得成功)
If a person is tipped to do something or is tipped for success at something, experts or journalists believe that they will do that thing or achieve that success.
例句
He is tipped to be the country's next foreign minister...
他被认定会成为该国下一任外交部长。
He was widely tipped for success.
大家都认定他会成功。
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(对赛马、比赛结果的)预测,内幕消息
Someone's tip for a race or competition is their advice on its likely result, especially to someone who wants to bet money on the result.
例句
I've a tip for the races…
我有一条关于赛马比赛的内部消息。
United are still my tip for the Title.
我仍然认定联队会夺冠。
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PHRASE
(事物的)端倪,表面一小部分,冰山一角
If you say that a problem is the tip of the iceberg, you mean that it is one small part of a much larger problem.
例句
Unless we're all a lot more careful, the people who have died so far will be just the tip of the iceberg.
除非我们都加倍小心,否则死者的人数会比现在多得多。
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PHRASE
使占优势
If something tips the scales or tips the balance, it gives someone a slight advantage.
例句
Today's slightly shorter race could well help to tip the scales in his favour...
今天距离稍短的赛跑可能会对他占据优势大有助益。
If the trial were evenly poised the newspapers might tip the balance against them.
如果选拔赛双方打平,报界可能会使形势朝着不利于他们的方向倾斜。
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PHRASE
话到嘴边(却没说出来)
If a comment or question is on the tip of your tongue, you really want to say it or ask it, but you decide not to say it.
例句
It was on the tip of Mahoney's tongue to say the boss was out...
马奥尼想说老板出去了,话到嘴边却没说出口。
A sarcastic remark was on the tip of her tongue.
挖苦的话到了她嘴边却没说出来。