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shill    音标拼音: [ʃ'ɪl]
n. 诱饵

诱饵

shill
n 1: a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to
stimulate the participation of others
v 1: act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet
during the auction in order to drive the price up"

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  • etymology - Origin of the word shill (shillaber) - English Language . . .
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  • Non-derogatory word for shill? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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    Here's the definition from the Oxford Living Dictionaries: shill NOUN North American _informal _ An accomplice of a confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others ‘I used to be a shill in a Reno gambling club’ figurative ‘the agency is a shill for the nuclear power industry’
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    For asking advice in American-English in a colloquial context, only "should" sounds good to me There are two problems with "shall " First, as Horatio says, "shall I" sounds more like an offer than a request Second, "shall" generally sounds affected to me, and I certainly wouldn't consider it "colloquial" in this context "Do I do we" is a possible way of asking this kind of question, but it





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