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Peddle Sell Place Verb 动词   [V N Village

英语单词 peddle
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]
  • His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.

    他到伦敦小画廊兜售自己的画作,结果碰了一鼻子灰。

2
[VERB 动词]贩卖(毒品) Someone who peddles drugs sells illegal drugs.
  [V n]
  • When a drug pusher offered the Los Angeles youngster $100 to peddle drugs, Jack refused.

    一个毒贩给杰克100美元让他贩卖毒品时,这个洛杉矶少年拒绝了。

peddling
  • The war against drug peddling is all about cash.

    禁毒斗争归根到底是钱的问题。

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]
  • They even set up their own news agency to peddle anti-isolationist propaganda.

    他们甚至设立了自己的通讯社来宣扬反孤立主义。

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