snake oil

snake oil

美 　英

• n.推销者的所谓“万应灵药”；狗皮膏药（毫无用处或效果的推销品）
• 网络蛇油；骗人的万灵油；蛇油公司

英汉双解

英汉解释

英英解释

例句

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”。

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。

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，没有人能告诉你到底是蛇油发挥了作用，还是你自然而然康复了。

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

正是出于对总统的不满，很多投票者开始倾向于相信这种鬼话。

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

不能让狗皮膏药来替代专业的医疗诊断和治疗。snakeoil蛇油，狗皮膏药。

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。

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

他以前被称为万金油贩，挨门小贩，贩卖从刷子到大不列颠百科全书的各种商品。

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

所有这些情况，都可能清除掉任何保护层，不管它是质量最好的还是便宜的蛇油。

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

像“心理适应能力”这样的措辞，必然会吸引骗子和推销员。

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

而如今，奥巴马政府显然是在担心自己是不是从克鲁格曼这样的凯恩斯主义者那里买到了毫无作用的推销品。

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

无论如何，在房产泡沫高点兜售的某些骗人的金融方式则不利于储蓄。

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

“教授”这一术语除了用来称呼学者，也已与调酒师，魔术师以及蛇油销售人员挂钩。

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。

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

但随着时间的推移，这一论断听上去使他更像是一个蛇油小贩，而不是能为大家带来蛇血的人。

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。

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

蛇油销售人员谎称该药能治任何疾病。

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

首先，它有责任去监管资产市场，这样人们才不会被误导购买万金油资产。

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。

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

蛇油这个术语出自19世纪在旅游药展上销售包治百病的万能药的美国做法。

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

推销没必要都卖蛇油（万用药）或是欺骗客户。

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.

最明显的就是质量的把关：市场上到处是一无是处的推销员，绕了半个地球想发现他们更难。

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

在各行各业都有卖“万灵油”的推销员。

Progress in the Research of Snake Oil

蛇油的研究进展

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

步骤3：生成SnakeOilCA签署的X.509证书[server.crt]