Peddle
['ped(ə)l] or ['pɛdl]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.
(v. i.) To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
(v. t.) To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.
整理:李奥娜
解釋/意思:
v.i. to travel about with a basket or bundle of goods esp. of smallwares for sale: to trifle.—v.t. to retail in small quantities.—ns. Pedd′ler Ped′lar Ped′ler a hawker or travelling merchant; Pedd′lery Ped′lary the trade or tricks of a peddler: wares sold by a peddler.—adj. Pedd′ling unimportant.—n. the trade or tricks of a peddler.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- What can you expect with these peddling Middlemarch papers? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Finally the Fourteenth Point arises again to the Great Charter level out of this peddling with special cases. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She was nearing us very fast, and the beating of her peddles grew louder and louder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
校對:索尼亚