2022年“搞笑诺贝尔奖”名单揭晓_生活英语

2022年“搞笑诺贝尔奖”名单揭晓

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2022-11-25 08:38 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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Let's meet some of the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes!

来看看今年 “搞笑诺贝尔奖” 的一些获奖者吧！

A moose crash-test dummy¹ for safety engineering.

这是获得 “安全工程奖” 的驼鹿碰撞测试模型。

A study to understand formation swimming in ducklings.

这是一项专攻小鸭子编队游泳原因的研究。

A study on the most efficient way of knob turning and research that examines the impenetrability of legal documents.

这是对转动球形把手最有效方式的研究，这项研究分析法律文件的措辞为何让人难以理解。

The effectiveness of ice cream as cryotherapy and how constipation affects the mating prospects² of scorpions³ are also among the winners.

探讨冰淇淋用于冷冻疗法的有效性，便秘如何影响蝎子交配的可能性，这些研究也纷纷获奖。

But don't confuse these awards with the more serious one given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

千万别把这些奖项与瑞典皇家科学院颁发的更严肃的奖项混为一谈。

These spoof⁴ awards are supposed to "make us laugh but then make us think".

这些搞笑奖项 “乍一看让人发笑，再一看却又引人深思”。

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1 dummy
n.假的东西；(哄婴儿的)橡皮奶头
参考例句：
The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹，只是一个假货。 The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。

2 prospects
n.希望，前途(恒为复数)
参考例句：
There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。 They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。

3 scorpions
n.蝎子( scorpion的名词复数 )
参考例句：
You promise me that Black Scorpions will never come back to Lanzhou. 你保证黑蝎子永远不再踏上兰州的土地。来自电影对白 You Scorpions are rather secretive about your likes and dislikes. 天蝎：蝎子是如此的神秘，你的喜好很难被别人洞悉。来自互联网

4 spoof
n.诳骗，愚弄，戏弄
参考例句：
The show was a spoof of college life.那戏是对大学生活的讽刺。 That is Tim Robbins's spoof documentary about a presidential campaign.那是蒂姆·罗宾斯关于总统选举的讽刺纪录片。