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this way. During a radio programme, a pany of biscuit manufacturers once asked listeners to bake biscuits and send them to their factory. They offered to pay $10 a pound for the biggest biscuit baked by a listener. The response to this petition was tremendous. Before long, biscuits of all shapes and sizes began arriving at the factory. One lady brought in a biscuit on a wheelbarrow. It weighted nearly 500 pounds. A little later, a man came along with a biscuit which occupied the whole boot of his car. All the biscuits that were sent were carefully weighed. The largest was 713 pounds. It seemed certain that this would win the prize. But just before the petition closed, a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly colossal biscuit which weighed 2,400 pounds. It had been baked by a college student who had used over 1,000 pounds of flour, 800 pounds of sugar, 200 pounds of fat, and 400 pounds of various other ingredients. It was so heavy that a crane had to be used to remove it from the lorry. The manufacturers had to pay more money than they had anticipated. For they bought the biscuit from the student for $24,000. 【課文翻譯】 沒有人能避免受廣告的影響。可以與之一比高低的是“塞姆皮雷”號(hào)帆船??磥?lái),它首先返抵英國(guó)是確信無(wú)疑的了,但它卻在比賽中連遭厄運(yùn)。凡是用“免費(fèi)”這個(gè)神奇的詞開頭的廣告很少會(huì)失敗的?! 旧~和短語(yǔ)】 influence n. 影響 pride n. 驕傲 taste n. 鑒賞力 exert v. 施加 subtle adj. 微妙的 advertiser n. 廣告人 classify v. 分類 magic adj. 有奇妙作用的 sample n. 樣品 devise v. 設(shè)計(jì),想出 capture v. 吸引 manufacturer n. 制造商 wheelbarrow n. 獨(dú)輪手推車 boot n. 行李箱 ingredient n. 配料 cranen n. 起重機(jī),鶴 anticipate v. 預(yù)期 新概念英語(yǔ)第三冊(cè)課文翻譯及詞匯Lesson27 【課文】 It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge,philosophers