scalper
音标：
英音/ ˈskælpə(r) / 美音/ ˈskælpər /
外刊例句：
“But some scalpers thought they have caught on to a business opportunity, as if they smelled blood.”
“但一些黄牛认为他们抓住了商机，就像闻到了血腥味一样。”
—Reuters
“The seller was kind and not a scalper.”
“卖家很友善，不是黄牛。”
—BBC
Some gaming websites had reported that alleged scalpers had descended on the museum to get the cards and resell them for inflated prices.
一些游戏网站报道称，据称有黄牛来到博物馆获取这些卡牌并以高价转售。
—BBC
基本释意：
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黄牛（专售戏票等牟利）；剥头皮的人；雕刻刀，圆凿子
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文学例句：
Some have launched out on the world’s busy tide, Some have got married, some have died, Some on the frontier, wading through strife, With the musketry’s rattle and the wild scalper’s knife.
有的人踏上了世界繁忙的大潮， 有的人结婚了，有的人死了， 有的人在边疆，涉过纷争， 伴随着步枪的嘎嘎声和狂野的黄牛刀。
—Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point
Written for the New Year’s Festival at the Cadets’
Sabbath-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, January
1, 1879 by Stewart, Maria L.
Among other extraordinary claims made upon me immediately after the affair of the “scalpers” was one for 400 gallons of eau de Cologne.
“黄牛”事件发生后，我立即收到了其他非同寻常的指控，其中包括一项针对 400 加仑古龙水的指控。
—The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II
1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
“They paid like three hundred dollars to some scalper for counterfeit tickets!”
“他们花了三百美元给黄牛买假票！”
—Small Steps by Louis Sachar
词源：
scalper (n.)1650s as a type of surgical instrument; 1760 as “one who takes or removes scalps,” agent noun from scalp (v.).
The meaning “person who re-sells tickets at unauthorized prices for a profit” is by 1869 in American English; the earliest reference is to theater tickets, but it more often was used late 19c. of brokers who sold unused portions of railway tickets.
Railways charged less per mile for longer-distance tickets; a person traveling from New York to Chicago could buy a ticket to San Francisco, get off at Chicago and sell the ticket to a scalper, and have traveled more cheaply than if he had simply bought a ticket to Chicago. The Chicago scalper would hold the ticket till he found someone looking for a ticket to San Francisco, then sell it at a slight advance but for less than the official price.
Perhaps it is from scalp (v.) in some sense; scalper was a generic term for “con man, cheater” in late 19c. Or perhaps the connecting sense is the bounty offered for scalps of certain destructive animals (attested in New England from 1703) and the notion is “one who holds only part of something, but still gets a reward.” Some, though, see a connection rather to scalpel, the surgical instrument.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
黄牛刀（n.）1650年代作为一种手术器械； 1760 作“取走或去除头皮的人”，来自头皮的代理名词（v.）。 1869 年，美式英语中“以未经授权的价格转售门票以获取利润的人”的含义出现；最早指的是剧院门票，但更常用的是 19 世纪末。出售未使用部分火车票的经纪人。铁路对长途车票每英里收费较低；一个从纽约到芝加哥旅行的人可以买一张去旧金山的机票，在芝加哥下车，然后把机票卖给黄牛，这样一来，他的旅行成本就比只买一张去芝加哥的机票便宜。芝加哥黄牛会一直持有机票，直到他找到有人在寻找飞往旧金山的机票，然后以低于官方价格的价格稍微提前出售。也许在某种意义上是来自头皮（v.）；黄牛是 19 世纪末“骗子、骗子”的通用术语。或者也许这种联系的意义是对某些破坏性动物的头皮的赏金（自 1703 年起在新英格兰得到证实），而这个概念是“一个只持有某物的一部分，但仍然获得奖励的人”。不过，有些人认为与手术刀（手术器械）有联系。相关条目及更多
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