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Retail Sell Buy Wholesale Buying Flowers N   [Business

英语单词 retail
英美音标 英 ['riːteɪl] 美 ['riːteɪl]
中文释义 n.零售
vt.零售;传述
adv.以零售形式
英语例句 (1) They buy at wholesale and sell at retail.
(2) These biros retail at 70p.
(3) Who is responsible for retailing these rumors about him?
(4) It is of no good for you to retail such gossip.
中文例句 (1) 他们大批地买进,再以零售方式卖出。
(2) 这些圆珠笔零售价为70便士。
(3) 是谁散布这些有关他的流言蜚语的?
(4) 你传播这种留言对自己没好处。
vocabulary简明 If you buy a pair of jeans at your neighborhood Chique Boutique, you’re buying retail, but if you go to China and buy a boatload of jeans directly from the manufacturer, you’re buying wholesale, which is the opposite of retail.
vocabulary扩展 If you make your living growing flowers, you may have a retail shop where you sell to people buying flowers for themselves, and you may also have a wholesale business, where you sell flowers to florists and supermarkets who sell your flowers to their customers. As you have probably figured out, the retail shops — the florists and supermarkets — add their own markup to the wholesale price you charge them, so they can make a profit, too.
柯林斯解释
The pronunciation is /'riːteɪl/ for meanings 1 to 3, and /riː'teɪl/ for meaning 4. 义项1到3读作/'riːteɪl/。义项4读作/riː'teɪl/。
1
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]零售;零卖 Retail is the activity of selling goods direct to the public, usually in small quantities.
  [usu N n]
  [BUSINESS 商]
  • ...retail stores...

    零售店

  • Retail sales grew just 3.8 percent last year.

    去年零售额只上升了3.8%。

2
[ADV 副词]以零售方式 If something is sold retail, it is sold in ordinary shops direct to the public.
  [ADV after v]
  [BUSINESS 商]
    3
    [VERB 动词](以…价格)零售,零卖 If an item in a shop retails at or for a particular price, it is on sale at that price.
      [V at/for n]
      [BUSINESS 商]
    • It originally retailed at £23.50.

      它原来的零售价格是23.50英镑。

    4
    [VERB 动词]See also:
    retailing
    (热情而详细地)讲述;详述 If someone retails a story or event, they tell it to someone else, often in detail and in an exciting way.
      [V n]
      [LITERARY 文]
    • Mr Hastings gleefully retailed the story to Mr Anderson over lunch.

      黑斯廷斯先生在午宴上兴致勃勃地把这个故事向安德森先生详述了一遍。

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