sell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of selling; sale.
    — Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.
  2. A seat or stool. obsolete
    — The tyrant proud frown’d from his loftie cell, [...].
  3. A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope). obsolete,regional
    — He picked up the sell from the straw-strewn barn-floor, snelly sneaked up behind her and sleekly slung it around her swire while scryingː "dee, dee ye fooking quhoreǃ".
  4. The promotion of an idea for acceptance. broadly,figuratively
    — This is going to be a tough sell.
  5. A saddle. archaic
    — turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].
  6. An easy task.
  7. An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity. colloquial,dated
    — "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
动词 v.
  1. To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. ditransitive,intransitive,transitive
    — She sold her old car very quickly.
  2. To be sold. ergative
    — This old stock will never sell.
  3. To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all. transitive
    — Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan. Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van. Howard: You're right. It sells itself.
  4. To promote (a particular viewpoint). transitive
    — My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.
  5. To betray for money or other things. transitive
  6. To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone. slang,transitive
    — Then weaues Other crosse-plots New tricks for safety, are sought; They thriue: When, bold, Each tempt's th'other againe, and all are sold.
  7. To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act. slang,transitive
  8. To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game. Australia,intransitive,slang
    — He's selling!

词形变化

sells present,singular,third-person selling participle,present sold participle,past sold past sells plural sells plural selle alternative,obsolete sells plural

词汇关系

近义词
cheap flog hawk monger peddle retail sell vend
反义词
buy barter
上位词
give trade
下位词
auction
衍生词
backsell buy low, sell high buy when it snows sell when it goes cold sell cost of goods sold cross-sell don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear hand-sell hard-sell I have a bridge to sell you long sell missell mis-sell no-sell onsell outsell oversell panic sell presell price to sell proverbs should be sold in pairs resell sellability sellable sell against the box sell away sell bargains sell-by date sell by the candle sell coals to Newcastle sell coal to Newcastle sell dearly sell down sell down the river sellee sell freezers to Eskimos sell ice to Eskimos sell in May …and go away …and stay away …then go away sell like hot cakes sell like hotcakes sell off sell-off sell on sell one's ass sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage sell one's body sell oneself sell oneself short sell one's life dearly sell one's own grandmother sell one's soul sell one's soul to the devil sell order sell out from under sell out sell-out sell past the close sell refrigerators to eskimos sell salt to a slug sell short sell side sell snow to Eskimos sell someone a bill of goods sell someone a pup sell-sword sellsword sell the dummy sell the family silver sell the news sell the pass sell-through sell up sell wolf tickets …woof tickets short sell short-sell sold again and got the money supersell undersell unsell unsellability upsell what wins on Sunday sells on Monday hard sell sell-up soft sell tough sell
相关词
sale

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sellen, from Old English sellan (“give; give up for money”), from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁-.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots sell (“to sell”), Danish sælge (“to sell”), Norwegian Bokmål selge (“to sell”), Norwegian Nynorsk selja, selje (“to sell”), Swedish sälja (“to sell”), Faroese and Icelandic selja (“to sell”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (saljan, “to pay tribute, make an offer”).
词源 2
From French selle, from Latin sella.
词源 3
From Old Saxon seill or Old Norse seil. Cognate with Dutch zeel (“rope”), German Seil (“rope”).
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