| 单词 | to traffic away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto traffic away to traffic away transitive. To dispose of (goods or a commodity) by trade or bartering; (frequently and in later use chiefly figurative) to give up or relinquish (something) in pursuit of financial reward or other advantage; (hence) to throw away recklessly, to squander, to waste. Now rare. ΚΠ 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 314 Your cleane white linnen..was very good chaffer, to trafficke away with strangers. 1666 J. Caryl Expos. 38th–42nd Chaps. Job xlii. 907 What kind of Merchants, what kind of Exchange-men are they, that will traffick or truck away their souls, for the profits or pleasures of sin. 1755 Monitor 20 Dec. 171 They trafficked away the peace of Europe. 1772 H. Maffett tr. Sallust Catiline & Jugurthine Wars 171 Vieing with one another in their prizes of cattle and slaves, and openly trafficking them away with the merchants. 1879 19th Cent. No. 32. 673 The honour of the proud house of Este was being basely trafficked away. 1914 Manch. Courier 1 Apr. 10/4 Base degenerates, trafficking their souls away for greed of gold and selling their honour for so much cash down! 1934 Nashville Tennessean 12 Apr. 11/8 Those out of power are said to claim that their party..has been traded and trafficked away. < as lemmas |
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