 The findings suggest that marketers could manipulate our desire for their products by figuring out ways to distract us and keep us from fully remembering our experiences. We could also trick ourselves into eating less junk food by immersing ourselves in the memory of a previous snack. 研究结果表明，营销人员可以通过分散我们的注意力，使我们不能完全记住我们的经历，以此来操纵我们对他们产品的欲望。我们也可以通过沉浸在之前吃过零食的记忆中来欺骗自己少吃垃圾食品。 ——《科学美国人》 基本释义 If you say that someone manipulates an event or situation, you disapprove of them because they use or control it for their own benefit, or cause it to develop in the way they want. v. 操纵；控制 单词manipulate里的词根man部分，来源于印欧词根man，表示“手”。所以，在英语里包含man单词，多与“手、操作”相关：manufacture vt. 制造；加工manuscript n. 手稿 manual n. 说明书；小册子 maneuver vt. 演习；调遣 manicure v. 修剪，美甲 handle: If you say that someone can handle a problem or situation, you mean that they have the ability to deal with it successfully.（处理）operate: When you operate a machine or device, or when it operates, you make it work.（操作） |
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