In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that "social epidemics" are driven in large part by the actions of a tiny minority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well connected.
在他的著作《引爆点》中，马尔科姆·格拉德威尔认为，"社会流行"在很大程度上是由一小部分特殊个体的行为驱动的，这些人通常被称为有影响力者，他们往往信息特别灵通、极具说服力或人脉广泛。
And new tipping technology may even automatically add tips.
而且，新的小费支付技术甚至可以自动添加小费。
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.
小费一直是历史上依赖小费服务行业工人的重要收入来源，比如在餐馆中，小费最低工资可以低至2美元。
Notably, tipping primarily benefits some of these workers, such as cooks and dishwashers.
值得注意的是，小费主要使其中一些工人受益，例如厨师和洗碗工。
To ensure that all employees were paid fair wages, some restaurants banned tipping and increased prices, but this movement toward no-tipping services has largely fizzled out.
为了确保所有员工都能获得公平的工资，一些餐厅禁止小费并提高了价格，但这种向无小费服务转型的运动大多已经偃旗息鼓了。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。