首页英语词典sellsell的意思

sell

英 [sel] 美[sɛl]

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近义词peddle vend market

反义词

vt. 销售；推销；出卖；欺骗
vi. 卖；出售；受欢迎；有销路
n. 销售；失望；推销术
n. (Sell)人名；(德)泽尔；(英、芬、瑞典)塞尔

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词态变化

第三人称单数: sells;过去式: sold;过去分词: sold;现在分词: selling;

中文词源

sell 出售，销售

来自古英语 sellan,供应，提供，移交，来自 Proto-Germanic*saljan,提供，交付，来自 PIE*sel, 持有，握住，词源同 sale.后引申词义出售，销售，原词义逐渐退出使用。

英英释意

1. the activity of persuading someone to buy;: "it was a hard sell"

英文词源

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 sälga and Danish sælge ‘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).

考试真题

More recently, however, some companies have been investing money in a more ambitious undertaking: learning how to adjust the fundamental make-up of the food they sell.

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

They say it is healthier than green tea and could be sold for a price that is three to four times higher than the price of green tea.

He says the market for the tea is unstable and he is often forced to sell his purple tea for the same price as green tea leaves.

The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts ( ' , 催化剂 ), but the big food companies—which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking—made the home cook an endangered species.

The low-sodium, low- fat frozen dinners sold much better than expected.

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

Amazon, by far the largest bookseller in the country, reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and-ink format.

But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or apartment

And although you don't read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of oil products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countries.

Broader definitions of the sharing economy include peer-to-peer lending or putting a solar panel on your roof and selling power back to the gr/d ( 电网)

For students, it means they're basically stuck with a four pound paper-weight that they can't sell back.

Among them: Density restrictions: licenses to sell alcohol aren't handed out unplanned to all comers but are allotted（分配）based on the number of places in an area that already sell alcohol

So why not limit the density of food outlets, particularly ones that sell food rich in empty calories

There are already too many stores selling alcohol.

So here's a suggestion offered by two researchers at the Rand Corporation: Why not take a lesson from alcohol control policies and apply them to where food is sold and how it's displayed?

Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.

Facebook then attempts to make money by selling their data to advertisers that want to send targeted messages

In original business model, which involved selling ads and putting then At the side of the pages totally Who wants to took at ads when they're online connecting with their friends?

It profits by selling its users' personal data

She sold the restaurant with a substantial profit.

Well, I guess I'd sell my watch or computer or do some odd jobs till I could afford a return plane ticket.

If you have an appliance that doesn't work, send a letter to the store that sold it.

Corporations created home pages where they could place text and graphics to sell products.

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

Suddenly, our market has exploded in size and we could now sell our products all across the continent.

That's when Addison and her friends Erika and Emily Borden decided to sell lemonade for 50 cents a cup and sell pictures for 25 cents each.

The Competition Commission is now to investigate whether the British airports Authority needs to sell off some of its assets.

The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts, but the big food companies—which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking—made the home cook an endangered species.

To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange.

This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it: You won't see this kitchen anywhere else in the world.

It sold cleaning products that were not included in the official Greenlist.

In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide.

BrightLine iTV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.

No business likes to admit that it sells addictive poison as a lifestyle choice.

Fitbit, for example, released its first smartwatch Monday, selling with a clear purpose – to improve your fitness – and promoting it as a tool, not a toy.

We can’t expect kids to turn off that admiration when the same person is selling sugar.

There are certain products andservices that are very suitable for selling online, and others that simply don’t work.

Indeed many organizations also useinstitutional or prestige advertising which is designed to build uptheir reputation rather than to sell particular products.

However,if your bond does not have features hat make it attractive to other investors, you may be forced to sell your bond at a discount i.

But if your bond is highly valued by other investors, you may be able to sell it at a premium, i

Bonds are bought and sold daily on major securities exchanges.

They sell stocks and other assets.

resolved to stop selling oil to the United States.

It can include them in subscription deals sold to libraries or sell them individually under a consumer licence.

Google's business model has always been to provide information for free, and sell advertising on the basis of the traffic this generates," points out James Grimmelmann, associate professor at New York Law School

Google will be able to display up to 20% of orphan works for free, include them in its subscription deals to libraries and sell them to individual buyers under the consumer licence.

Now, he says, because of the settlement's provisions, Google could become a significant force in book selling.

But what is certain is that, in some way or other, Google's entrance into digital book selling will have a significant impact on the book world in the years to come

While providing information for free, Google makes money by selling advertising.

Google's entrance into digital book selling will tremendously change the world's book market in the future

General Motors sells as many cars in China as in America each month.

They manufacture and sell office furniture.

He becomes an inventor and sells his inventions in order to attend the university.

The houses within his price range are sold out.

Selling products made for left-handers.

I once intended to sell it, but now, I'm thinking of turning it into a guest house, because it's still a solid structure.

Iced coffees sold by some popular chains are contaminated.

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) conducted a survey of iced coffees sold by some popular chains in Britain including Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa Coffee to gauge the calories as studies increasingly link obesity with cancer

It is not only polite, it is essential if we want to sell British products overseas.

Publishers were interested only in books that would sell fairly quickly in sufficient numbers to cover the costs of production and make a profit.

The prospect of having to sell their home and give up their independence, and move into a retirement home was an extremely painful experience for them.

with more than $12 billion in sales this year, the industry is booming and, according to the market research company, Grand view Research, is on track to sell billions more by 2025.

Afterwards, she and her father secured their first business meeting with a supermarket owner, who finally agreed to sell Moore's product—cancandy.

Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year.

Bradford sold the building and land to a local development firm, which plans to build a shopping complex on the land where the theater is located.

But recently it has discovered that data can be turned into new services: translation and visual recognition, to be sold to other companies.

But the phrase "penny paper" caught the public's fancy, and soon there would be papers that did indeed sell for only a penny.

Charlotte stone will perform songs from her new best-selling cd, with james pickering on the piano.

He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a cake for his mother and some seeds for his bird.

He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what was left.

Here, different types of tea are tasted by skilled tea tasters, before they're sold at each week's tea sale.

I showed her the workbook and tapes kurt was selling.

If producers are required to take back packaging they use to sell their products, would they reduce the packaging in the first place?

It is difficult to sell services to poor people.

It is sold on the Internet.

It sells excellent European glass collections.

It will be sold to the city government.

It's sold at a discount price.

Now, in the second picture, you can see how tea is tasted in the tea trade center before it is sold.

Oh, I'm afraid it was sold out.

Painters, digital media experts, photographers, booking agents and promoters are hired to sell tickets and promote the event.

Removing him from the pantheon of English literature would make about as much sense as the louvre selling of the mona lisa.

Said Monday that its new flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the next year.

Several boys were crowding around chad, who declared with a proud smile that he sold six dozen the day before.

She chose to sell a few larger objects that were less often used when we promised to put the money into her school fund our kindergarten daughter is serious about becoming a doctor.

Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees to sell the wood.

So he spent time improving his painting skills and began to sell his paintings.

Some of them are also later sold, in order to limit the number of ponies according to the rules set by natural england.

The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.

The instant view of water on both levels helped sell these $10 million houses.

The more costly the house is, the better it sells.

The state also cleared the way for companies to sell or rent out self-driving cars, and for companies to operate driverless taxi services.

They start selling tickets at 9:30 a.m.

Wander among a variety of shops selling gifs while enjoying a live music show and nice street entertainment.

When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market which people from the towns met regularly.

When it comes to the selling of houses, businesses also use highly rewarding tactics.

You can sell the phone, and it can be recycled.

Young models selling dreams to the world.

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests Directly to the public , ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

But in some cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media – for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site.

DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google's on that count before.

Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.

As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.

But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests directly to the public, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

词组搭配

sell someone a bill of goods

见 bill of goods

sell someone down the river

sell someone a (或 the) dummy

sell the pass

sell someone a pup

sell someone/thing short

fail to recognize or state the true value of

低估，轻视

don't sell yourself short—you've got what it takes.
别低估了自己——你已经具备了成功的条件。

sell one's soul (to the devil)

do or be willing to do anything, no matter how wrong it is, in order to achieve one's objective

出卖灵魂；做昧良心的事

universities and polytechnics are selling their souls for commercial success.
大学和工科院校正在为获取商业利益而做昧良心的事情。

sell off

To get rid of by selling, often at reduced prices.

甩卖：卖掉，出售通常是降低出售

sell out

To put all of one's goods or possessions up for sale.

出盘，盘店：把所有贷物或财产全部出售

&I{Slang} To betray one's cause or colleagues

&I{【俚语】} 出卖：出卖了自己的理想或同事

He sold out to the other side.
他出卖自己投靠到另一方去

sell a bill of goods【非正式用语】

To take unfair advantage of.

占便宜

sell down the river【非正式用语】

To betray the true trust or faith of.

背叛信念或信仰

sell short

To contract for the sale of securities or commodities one expects to own at a later date and at more advantageous terms.

卖空：订立合同出售自己在以后的某个时间才会拥有的证券或商品以便获得较有利的条款

To underestimate the true value or worth of

低估，轻视：低估（某人或物的）真正价值，轻视

Don't sell your colleague short; she's a smart lawyer.
别低估你的同事；她可是个精明的律师

实用场景例句

I sold my car to James for £800.: 我把我的汽车转让给了詹姆斯，获得800英镑。

I sold James my car for £800.: 我以800英镑把我的汽车卖给了詹姆斯。

They sold the business at a profit/loss (= they gained/lost money when they sold it) .: 他们把公司让出赢利 / 亏本让出。

We offered them a good price but they wouldn't sell.: 我们开了个好价钱，但他们不愿卖。

Most supermarkets sell a range of organic products.: 多数超级市场都经销一系列有机产品。

Do you sell stamps?: 你这儿卖邮票吗？

to sell insurance: 卖保险

The magazine sells 300 000 copies a week.: 这份杂志一周售出30万册。

The book sold well and was reprinted many times.: 这本书销路不错，重印了好多次。

The new design just didn't sell (= nobody bought it) .: 新款式无人问津。

The pens sell for just 50p each.: 这些钢笔每支只卖50便士。

You may not like it but advertising sells.: 你可以不喜欢广告，但它能促销。

It is quality not price that sells our products.: 我们的产品销路好，靠的是质量，而不是价格。

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。

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。

Bean sprouts are also sold in cans.: 也有罐装豆芽出售。

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。

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。

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

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

...a man who would sell his soul for political viability.: 为了升官晋爵甘愿出卖良心的人