| 英语单词 | peddle |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['pedl] 美 ['pedl] |
| 中文释义 | v.兜售;(沿街)叫卖;散播 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He peddled small household articles around the town. (2) Beside them, excitable young men peddle DVDs and designer sunglasses. (3) The man loves to peddle gossip all over the office. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他在城里挨家挨户兜售日用百货。 (2) 就在她们身边不远,热火朝天的年轻人们叫卖着DVD和设计新潮的太阳镜。 (3) 这个人喜欢满办公室散布流言蜚语。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When you peddle something, you go out and try to sell it. It's cute when a little kid peddles his homemade birthday cards around the neighborhood, but if an adult did that it might be annoying. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The classic image of someone who peddles is an old-fashioned "peddler" or "tinker" traveling from village to village selling goods. The verb peddle, in fact, comes from the word "peddler," whose origin is a mystery. Any time you sell something by going from place to place, like selling Girl Scout cookies to all your neighbors, you peddle. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]到处叫卖;兜售 Someone who peddles things goes from place to place trying to sell them. [V n] [OLD-FASHIONED 过时]
2 [VERB 动词]贩卖(毒品) Someone who peddles drugs sells illegal drugs. [V n]
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3 [VERB 动词]宣扬,散布(思想或消息) If someone peddles an idea or a piece of information, they try very hard to get people to accept it. [V n] [disapproval]
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