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n./v. 给小费15 次
U.S. customers historically tipped people they assumed were earning most of their income via tips, such as restaurant servers earning less than the minimum wage.
历史上，美国顾客给小费的对象，是那些他们认为大部分收入来自小费的人，比如收入低于最低工资的餐厅服务员。
These systems often prompted customers to tip for services that were not previously tipped.
这些系统常常提示顾客为以前不用付小费的服务支付小费。
These systems often prompted customers to tip for services that were not previously tipped.
这些系统常常提示顾客为以前不用付小费的服务支付小费。
Today’s tip requests are often not connected to the salary and service norms that used to determine when and how people tip.
如今的小费要求往往与过去决定人们何时、如何付小费的薪资和服务规范无关。
And new tipping technology may even automatically add tips.
而新的小费技术甚至可能自动加上小费。
Tipping has always been a vital source of income for workers in historically tipped services, like restaurants, where the tipped minimum wage can be as low as US $2.13 an hour.
对于传统上收小费的服务行业（如餐厅）的员工来说，小费一直是重要的收入来源，在这些行业中，领取小费员工的最低工资可低至每小时2.13美元。
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Tipping has always been a vital source of income for workers in historically tipped services, like restaurants, where the tipped minimum wage can be as low as US $2.13 an hour.
对于传统上收小费的服务行业（如餐厅）的员工来说，小费一直是重要的收入来源，在这些行业中，领取小费员工的最低工资可低至每小时2.13美元。
Tipping has always been a vital source of income for workers in historically tipped services, like restaurants, where the tipped minimum wage can be as low as US $2.13 an hour.
对于传统上收小费的服务行业（如餐厅）的员工来说，小费一直是重要的收入来源，在这些行业中，领取小费员工的最低工资可低至每小时2.13美元。
Notably, tipping primarily benefits some of these workers, such as waiters, but not others, such as cooks and dishwashers.
值得注意的是，小费主要惠及其中一部分员工，比如服务员，而不惠及另一些员工，比如厨师和洗碗工。
To ensure that all employees were paid fair wages, some restaurants banned tipping and increased prices, but this movement towards no-tipping services has largely fizzled out.
为了确保所有员工都能获得公平的工资，一些餐厅禁止收小费并提高了价格，但这场走向免小费服务的运动基本上已经不了了之。
To ensure that all employees were paid fair wages, some restaurants banned tipping and increased prices, but this movement towards no-tipping services has largely fizzled out.
为了确保所有员工都能获得公平的工资，一些餐厅禁止收小费并提高了价格，但这场走向免小费服务的运动基本上已经不了了之。
And, as our research emphasizes, tipping now seems to be more coercive, less generous, and often completely dissociated from service quality.
而且，正如我们的研究所强调的，小费如今似乎更具强制性、更少出于慷慨，而且常常与服务质量完全脱节。
According to Paragraph 1, the practice of tipping in the U.S. ____
根据第1段，美国的小费做法____
The movement toward no-tipping services was intended to ____
走向免小费服务的运动旨在____
It can be learned from the last paragraph that tipping ____
从最后一段可知，小费____
n. 小费14 次
U.S. customers historically tipped people they assumed were earning most of their income via tips, such as restaurant servers earning less than the minimum wage.
历史上，美国顾客给小费的对象，是那些他们认为大部分收入来自小费的人，比如收入低于最低工资的餐厅服务员。
Today’s tip requests are often not connected to the salary and service norms that used to determine when and how people tip.
如今的小费要求往往与过去决定人们何时、如何付小费的薪资和服务规范无关。
Customers in the past nearly always paid tips after receiving a service, such as at the conclusion of a restaurant meal, after getting a haircut or once a pizza was delivered.
过去，顾客几乎总是在接受服务之后才付小费，比如在餐厅用餐结束时、理完发后或披萨送到时。
It’s becoming more common for tips to be requested beforehand.
事先索要小费的情况正变得越来越普遍。
And new tipping technology may even automatically add tips.
而新的小费技术甚至可能自动加上小费。
The prevalence of digital payment devices has made it easier to ask customers for a tip.
数字支付设备的普及让向顾客索要小费变得更容易。
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That helps explain why tip requests are creeping into new kinds of services.
这有助于解释为什么小费要求正悄然渗入新的服务类型。
This increase is sometimes called tipflation — the expectation of ever-higher tip amounts.
这种上涨有时被称为“小费通胀”——即对小费金额越来越高的预期。
Tip creep and tipflation are now further supplementing the income of many low-wage service workers.
小费蔓延和小费通胀如今正进一步补贴许多低薪服务人员的收入。
So to increase employee wages without raising prices, more employers are succumbing to temptations of tip creep and tipflation.
因此，为了在不涨价的情况下提高员工工资，越来越多的雇主经不住小费蔓延和小费通胀的诱惑。
However, many customers are frustrated because they feel they are being asked for too high of a tip too often.
然而，许多顾客感到不满，因为他们觉得自己被要求支付过高小费的次数太多了。
Compared with tips in the past, today’s tips ____
与过去的小费相比，如今的小费____
Compared with tips in the past, today’s tips ____
与过去的小费相比，如今的小费____
Tip requests are creeping into new kinds of services as a result of ____
小费要求悄然渗入新的服务类型，是由于____
n. 指点，窍门，建议大纲外5 次
Parenting tips obtained from hunter-gatherers in Africa may be the key to bringing up more contented children, researchers have suggested.
研究人员提出，从非洲狩猎采集者那里获得的育儿经验，可能是培养出更快乐的孩子的关键。
Here are some tips:
以下是一些建议：
The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carry a book with you at all times.”
网上到处都是提供挤时间读书窍门的文章：“别看电视了”或者“随时随身带本书”。
This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most “happiness bang for your buck”.
这本薄薄的书里满是小窍门，帮助工薪族和彩票中奖者都能“花最少的钱买最多的快乐”。
Everyone says this, but it really is a top tip for frugal eaters.
人人都这么说，但对于节俭的食客来说，这确实是一条绝佳的建议。
n. 尖端1 次
Beginning in 2006, some scientists have [argued] that plants possess neuron-like cells that interact with hormones and neurotransmitters, [forming] “a plant nervous system, [analogous] to that in animals,” said lead study author Lincoln Taiz, “They [even] claimed that plants have ‘brain-like command centers’ at their root tips.”
该研究的第一作者林肯·泰兹说：“从2006年开始，一些科学家就主张植物拥有与激素和神经递质相互作用的类神经元细胞，从而构成‘一个类似于动物神经系统的植物神经系统’，他们甚至声称植物的根尖处有‘类似大脑的指挥中心’。”