Mystery shopping is a tool used externally by market research companies, watchdog organizations, or internally by companies themselves to measure quality of service, or compliance1 with regulation, or to gather specific information about products and services.

Each mystery shopper was equipped with one of four imaginary portfolios.

研究者准备了四个虚构的投资组合，让每一位神秘顾客各自带去一个。

Through customer surveys, focus group meetings and mystery shopper surveys, we gather market information to enable our clients to react promptly to customers'needs and outmaneuver competition.

我们透过市场调查，焦点小组讨论和神秘顾客调查收集及分析市场资讯，帮商家对于顾客需求做出明智的反应。

About a year ago, it extended its existing mystery shopper program to include undercover 'clients' speaking Chinese and a number of other languages.

大约一年前，春天百货扩大了现有的神秘购物者项目，添加了讲中文和其它多种语言的卧底顾客。

You take an everyday basket of household goods and send a mystery shopper to discover what the bundle costs.

你准备一篮子日常用品，然后让一个神秘的购物者去弄清这篮用品的成本。

And a curiosity: this behaviour was substantially more common when the mystery shopper was a woman.

另外，有趣的是：如果神秘顾客是女性，发生这种情况的几率会大为提高。

What happens in practice depends on the detail of the instructions to the mystery shopper and the frequency with which the relative weights of the components of the basket are reassessed.

实际情况取决于这位神秘购物者得到的详细指令，以及篮子里各物品相对权重重新调整的频率。

People won't make much but they might have fun working in a focus group or evaluating products or services as a mystery shopper.

人们不会因此赚到很多的钱，不过他们或许会从小组讨论或者作为一名神秘顾客去评价产品和服务中得到乐趣。

It has all the ingredients of a good mystery story.

这部作品具有构成一个好的神秘故事所有的因素。

It weaves a mystery through the story that leaves you wondering if role playing is as dangerous as its history suggests.

影片从头至尾制造了一种神秘的气氛，让你产生疑惑，“究竟‘角色扮演’这种游戏是不是像过去的故事所表现的这么危险”？

When I became teenager at middle school, I was interested in mystery story.

当我处于青少年时期读中学时，我迷上了科幻小说。

He also introduces a sense of mystery in the story.

他还在故事中添加了一丝神秘感。

The figures are found all over the world in different forms, but they are most commonly linked with Egypt, which features the most famous example in the form of the Great Sphinx of Giza.

世界各地都发现了这类雕像，形态各异。然而说到狮身人面像，人们主要想到的还是埃及，那里有最著名的狮身人面像。

Of course the site that is most synonymous with the image of Egypt is the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx at Giza.

毋庸置疑，最具埃及风格的是大金字塔和吉萨的斯芬克斯（Sphinx，带翼的狮身女怪）。

The team spent more than three weeks in the western German city of Duisburg working on the 16.68 metre ( 54.72 feet) artwork, which included a sandy replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza, Venice's Rialto Bridge and the graveside of Elvis Presley.

这个雕塑家团队花费了三周多的时间，在德国西部城市杜伊斯堡建造了这一16.68米（54.72英尺）高的艺术作品，其中包括吉萨大狮身人面像，威尼斯里亚托桥和埃尔维斯·普雷斯利墓地的沙质复制品。

The beginning of one story about the Great Sphinx is written on a stele between the sphinx's paws.

关于狮身人面像的传说被刻在位于他两爪之间的石碑上。

The Great Sphinx of Giza appears to be no different.

吉萨的古埃及狮身人面像好像没什么不同。

This theory has few modern adherents, but if true it would mean the Great Sphinx of Giza is even more mysterious than previously believed.

现代人很少有人支持这一理论，但如果事实果真如此，这将意味着狮身人面像要比我们之前想象的还要神秘。

The Great Sphinx is located in Egypt on the Giza plateau, about six miles west of Cairo.

狮身人面像位于埃及的加扎高原，首都开罗以西大约6里。

Despite its reputation as one of the most famous monuments of antiquity, there is still very little known about the Great Sphinx of Giza.

尽管狮身人面像作为世界上最古老的雕像之一而享誉世界，但是世人对它仍知之甚少。

She proposed a possible solution to the mystery.

她提出了对这个奥秘的一种可能的解答。