sell
英 [sel]
美[s?l]
- vt. 銷(xiāo)售；推銷(xiāo)；出賣(mài)；欺騙
- vi. 賣(mài)；出售；受歡迎；有銷(xiāo)路
- n. 銷(xiāo)售；失望；推銷(xiāo)術(shù)
- n. (Sell)人名；(德)澤爾；(英、芬、瑞典)塞爾
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?sells;過(guò)去式:?sold;過(guò)去分詞:?sold;現(xiàn)在分詞:?selling;
中文詞源
sell 出售，銷(xiāo)售
來(lái)自古英語(yǔ) sellan,供應(yīng)，提供，移交，來(lái)自 Proto-Germanic*saljan,提供，交付，來(lái)自 PIE*sel, 持有，握住，詞源同 sale.后引申詞義出售，銷(xiāo)售，原詞義逐漸退出使用。
英文詞源
- sell
- sell: [OE] The underlying etymological meaning of sell is ‘give up, hand over’, but gradually the notion of handing something over in exchange for something else, particularly money, led to its present-day sense. Both meanings co-existed in Old English, but the original one had largely died out by the 14th century. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *saljan, which also produced Swedish s?lga and Danish s?lge ‘sell’. The noun sale is a product of the same base.
=> sale - sell (v.)
- Old English sellan "to give, furnish, supply, lend; surrender, give up; deliver to; promise," from Proto-Germanic *saljan "offer up, deliver" (cognates: Old Norse selja "to hand over, deliver, sell;" Old Frisian sella, Old High German sellen "to give, hand over, sell;" Gothic saljan "to offer a sacrifice"), ultimately from PIE root *sel- (3) "to take, grasp."
Meaning "to give up for money" had emerged by c. 1000, but in Chaucer selle still can mean "to give." Students of Old English learn early that the word that looks like sell usually means "give." An Old English word for "to sell" was bebycgan, from bycgan "to buy."
Slang meaning "to swindle" is from 1590s. The noun phrase hard sell is recorded from 1952. To sell one's soul is from c. 1570. Sell-by date is from 1972. To sell like hot cakes is from 1839. Selling-point attested from 1959.
To sell (someone) down the river figuratively is by 1927, probably from or with recollection of slavery days, on notion of sale from the Upper South to the cotton plantations of the Deep South (attested in this literal sense since 1851).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The programme of sell-offs has been implemented by the new chief executive.
- 新任總裁已經(jīng)執(zhí)行了拋售方案。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Any property which does not sell within six weeks is overpriced.
- 任何房產(chǎn)如果6周內(nèi)還賣(mài)不出去就說(shuō)明定價(jià)過(guò)高。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. I think more customers probably prefer a soft sell.
- 我認(rèn)為更多的顧客也許更喜歡軟性推銷(xiāo)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. The publisher expected the book to sell 1,500 copies, tops.
- 出版商預(yù)計(jì)該書(shū)至多能賣(mài)出1,500本。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. Across the busy plaza, vendors sell hot dogs and croissant sandwiches.
- 在熱鬧廣場(chǎng)的另一邊，攤販叫賣(mài)著熱狗和羊角三明治。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句