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1 [VERB 动词]卖;出让;转让 If you sell something that you own, you let someone have it in return for money. [V n] [V n to n] [V n for n] [V] [Also V n n] I sold everything I owned except for my car and my books... 我把我所有的东西都卖掉了,只剩下汽车和书。 His heir sold the painting to the London art dealer Agnews... 他的继承人把这幅画卖给了伦敦艺术品经销商阿格纽斯。 The directors sold the business for £14.8 million... 董事们把该公司以 1,480 万英镑的价格转让。 It's not a very good time to sell at the moment. 现在出售时机不太好。
2 [VERB 动词](商店)经售,出售 If a shop sells a particular thing, it is available for people to buy there. 3 [VERB 动词]以…的价格出售;售价是… If something sells for a particular price, that price is paid for it. Unmodernised property can sell for up to 40 per cent of its modernised market value. 没有装备现代化设施的房地产能够卖到它配置了现代化设施情况下的市价的 40%。 ... grain sells at 10 times usual prices. 粮食售价是平常的 10 倍。
4 [VERB 动词]有销路;大量卖出 If something sells, it is bought by the public, usually in fairly large quantities. Even if this album doesn't sell and the critics don't like it, we wouldn't ever change... 即使这张专辑得不到市场和评论家的青睐,我们也不会作出任何改变。 The company believes the products will sell well in the run-up to Christmas. 这个公司相信这些产品在圣诞节前夕一定会畅销。
5 [VERB 动词]促进…的销路;推销 Something that sells a product makes people want to buy the product. It is only the sensational that sells news magazines. 只有轰动性的事件才能促进新闻杂志的销售。 ...car manufacturers' long-held maxim that safety doesn't sell. 汽车生产商长期奉行的座右铭——安全性并不意味着畅销
6 [VERB 动词]使接受;使采纳 If you sell someone an idea or proposal, or sell someone on an idea, you convince them that it is a good one. [V n n] [V n to n] [V n on n] [V-ed] She tried to sell me the idea of buying my own paper shredder... 她努力说服我买一台自己的碎纸机。 She is hoping she can sell the idea to clients... 她希望能让客户们接受这个想法。 An employee sold him on the notion that cable was the medium of the future... 一名雇员让他认识到有线电视是未来的传播媒介。 You know, I wasn't sold on this trip in the beginning. 你知道,刚开始我并不同意来参加这次旅行。
7 [PHRASE 短语]出卖肉体;卖淫 If someone sells their body, they have sex for money. 8 [PHRASE 短语](为获得个人利益或好处而)出卖,背叛 If someone sells you down the river, they betray you for some personal profit or advantage. 9 [PHRASE 短语]低估;轻视;怠慢 If you sell someone short, you do not point out their good qualities as much as you should or do as much for them as you should. 10 [PHRASE 短语]出卖灵魂(或良心) If you talk about someone selling their soul in order to get something, you are criticizing them for abandoning their principles. [V and N inflect] [disapproval] 11 to sell like hot cakes→see: cake ; - 相关词组:
sell off sell on sell out sell up
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