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英 [selz]

美 [selz]

v.  出让; 转让; 出售; 售卖; 销售得…; 卖出…; 售价是…
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 卖;出让;转让
  If yousellsomething that you own, you let someone have it in return for money.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. It's not a very good time to sell at the moment.
     现在出售时机不太好。
• VERB (商店)经售，出售
  If a shopsellsa particular thing, it is available for people to buy there.
  1. It sells everything from hair ribbons to oriental rugs...
     这里出售各种商品，从发带到东方小地毯应有尽有。
  2. Bean sprouts are also sold in cans.
     也有罐装豆芽出售。
• VERB 以…的价格出售;售价是…
  If somethingsells fora particular price, that price is paid for it.
  1. 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%。
  2. ... grain sells at 10 times usual prices.
     粮食售价是平常的 10 倍。
• VERB 有销路;大量卖出
  If somethingsells, it is bought by the public, usually in fairly large quantities.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB 促进…的销路;推销
  Something thatsellsa product makes people want to buy the product.
  1. 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。
  2. ...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
• VERB 使接受;使采纳
  If yousellsomeone an idea or proposal, orsellsomeoneonan idea, you convince them that it is a good one.
  1. 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。
  2. She is hoping she can sell the idea to clients...
     她希望能让客户们接受这个想法。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
• PHRASE 出卖肉体;卖淫
  If someonesellstheirbody, they have sex for money.
  1. 85 per cent said they would rather not sell their bodies for a living.
     85%的人说如果存在其他选择，他们不会出卖肉体谋生。
• PHRASE (为获得个人利益或好处而)出卖，背叛
  If someonesellsyoudown the river, they betray you for some personal profit or advantage.
  1. He has been sold down the river by the people who were supposed to protect him.
     他被那些本应该保护他的人出卖了。
• PHRASE 低估;轻视;怠慢
  If yousellsomeoneshort, you do not point out their good qualities as much as you should or do as much for them as you should.
  1. They need to improve their image — they are selling themselves short...
     他们需要提升自己的形象——他们是在自贬身价。
  2. Selling their fans short in such a shabby way is not acceptable.
     如此过分地怠慢他们的崇拜者令人无法接受。
• PHRASE 出卖灵魂(或良心)
  If you talk about someonesellingtheirsoulin order to get something, you are criticizing them for abandoning their principles.
  1. ...a man who would sell his soul for political viability.
     为了升官晋爵甘愿出卖良心的人
• tosell like hot cakes→ see:cake

双语例句

• The co-op sells the art work at exhibitions.
  这家合作社在展览会上销售艺术品。
• 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。
• The shop sells all kinds of form-fitting pants.
  商店里出售着各式各样的健美裤。
• He sells poor goods and charges fancy prices.
  他卖便宜货却要高价钱。
• I work in a company which sells footwear.
  我在一家销售鞋类产品的公司工作。
• We can go to the shop which sells fashionable shorts and shirts.
  我们可以去那家卖新潮短裤和衬衫的商店。
• It's one of those shops that sells antiques and bric-a-brac.
  这是出售古董和小摆设的商店之一。
• Imagine a company that builds and sells cars in Britain, Turkey and Japan.
  设想一家公司在英国、土耳其和日本制造和销售汽车。
• It sells everything from hair ribbons to oriental rugs
  这里出售各种商品，从发带到东方小地毯应有尽有。
• Craft Resources also sells yarn and embroidery floss.
  工艺人员服务公司也售卖纱线和绣花丝线。