Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

We tend to equate（等同于）happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires it's harder to know what we want, or where we're heading.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings—meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Adam and Galinsky's experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers' attention.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

In an essay entitled "Making it in America", the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, "a man and a dog".

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Younger children should feel like they're choosing their home—without actually getting a choice in the matter, said Adam Bailey, a real estate attorney based in New York.

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ