Sell
[sel] or [sɛl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the activity of persuading someone to buy; 'it was a hard sell'.
(verb.) persuade somebody to accept something; 'The French try to sell us their image as great lovers'.
(verb.) give up for a price or reward; 'She sold her principles for a successful career'.
(verb.) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; 'He sold his house in January'; 'She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit'.
(verb.) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way; 'These books sell like hot cakes'.
(verb.) be responsible for the sale of; 'All her publicity sold the products'.
(verb.) be approved of or gain acceptance; 'The new idea sold well in certain circles'.
雨果錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Self.
(n.) A sill.
(n.) A cell; a house.
(n.) A saddle for a horse.
(n.) A throne or lofty seat.
(v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.
(v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
(v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.
(v. i.) To practice selling commodities.
(v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
(n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
艾维斯編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Vend, dispose of, put up to sale, bring to the hammer.
杰西整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Vend, retail, hawk, dispose_of
ANT:Give, bestow, present
編輯:卢克
解釋/意思:
n. a seat a throne: (Spens.) a saddle: a saddler.—adj. Sell′iform saddle-shaped.
v.t. to deliver in exchange for something paid as equivalent: to betray for money: to impose upon cheat.—v.i. to have commerce: to be sold to be in demand for sale:—pa.t. and pa.p. sōld.—n. a deception.—adj. Sell′able that can be sold.—n. Sell′er a furnisher: a vender: a small vessel for holding salt.—Sell one's life dearly to do great injury to the enemy before one is killed; Sell one up to sell a debtor's goods; Sell out to dispose entirely of: to sell one's commission.
校對:莫利
例句/造句/用法:
- I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Sell her her waste, please, and give her good measure if you can make up your mind to do the liberal thing for once. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Have we nothing to sell? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If we didn't want to sell it for the most we can get for it, we shouldn't do it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It is a mere toss up whether I shall ever do more than keep myself decently, unless I choose to sell myself as a mere pen and a mouthpiece. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Most cutters remove as little of the rough stone as possible in cutting so as to retain weight (they sell by weight). 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could not have enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She had sold it to become Sir Pitt Crawley's wife. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Why the bookseller that sold me the Wonderful Museum--where's the Wonderful Museum? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If I could have hoped it would have brought in nearly the sum wanted, I'd have sold all long ago. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Bring out some of the gold you sold yourself to the devil for. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Buying and selling was transacted by means of money in England then as well as now. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The dogfish are selling it somewhere else. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The stock was then selling at about 25, and in the later consolidation with the Western Union went in at about 60; so that the real purchase price was not less than $1,000,000 in cash. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A part of their wool and raw hides, they had generally an opportunity of selling for money. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A sight of times better to be selling diments than nobbling about here. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The seller is almost always under the necessity of selling, and must, therefore, take such a price as he can get. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the hand addressograph, which sells for as low as $27, he has worked out three practical models having an average speed of from 750 to 1,500 names and addresses an hour. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He sells, therefore, his rude produce for money, with which he can purchase, wherever it is to be had, the manufactured produce he has occasion for. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The more he sells the more he has for sale, said one priest. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Thirdly, that little man in St. James' Street, who sells box-combs, I forget his name, cut her hair at least an inch too short on the forehead. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Them as sells heart's love and heart's blood, to get out thar scrapes, de Lord'll be up to 'em! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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