| 单词 | sell |
| 释义 | verb | noun sellsell1 /sɛl/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tense and past participle sold /soʊld/) 1GIVE something FOR MONEY [intransitive, transitive] to give something to someone in exchange for money OPP buy: More than a million copies of the book have been sold.sell something to somebody I sold the piano to a friend.sell somebody something He offered to sell me his car.sell something for $100/$50 etc. She sold the painting for $150.sell something at a profit/loss (=sell something for more or less money than you originally paid for it)2FOR SALE [transitive] to offer something for people to buy: Do you sell stamps?3BE BOUGHT [intransitive] to be bought by someone in exchange for money: We’re hoping the house will sell quickly. Their first album sold millions.sell well/badly The car is selling well in Japan.sell for $100/$50/$3 etc. Nierman’s paintings sell for thousands of dollars.4MAKE somebody WANT something [transitive] to make people want to buy something: Scandals sell newspapers.sell something to somebody The car’s eco-friendly design should help sell it to consumers.5IDEA/PLAN a)[transitive] to try to make someone accept a new idea or plan: sell something to somebody He needed to sell the idea to his colleagues. b)[intransitive] to become accepted: There are doubts about whether the policy will sell in small-town America.6sell yourself a)to be able to make yourself seem impressive to other people: If you want a promotion, you’ve got to sell yourself better. b) (also sell your body) to have sex with someone for money7sell somebody/something short to not give someone or something the praise, attention, or reward that he or she deserves: Don’t sell yourself short – you’re very capable!8sell your soul (to the devil) to agree to do something bad in exchange for money, power, etc.9sell your vote to take money from someone who wants you to vote for a particular person or plan10sell somebody a bill of goods to trick someone into accepting or believing something that is not good or true by making it seem better than it is11sell somebody down the river informal to do something that harms a group of people who trusted you to help them, in order to gain money or power for yourself[Origin: Old English sellan] → see also be selling/going like hotcakes at hotcake (1)sell something ↔ off phrasal verb1to sell something, especially for a low price, because you need the money, or because you want to get rid of it: They sold off their surplus cattle.2to sell all or part of a businesssell somebody on something phrasal verb to persuade someone that an idea or plan is good: We’re still trying to sell Dad on a family trip to Hawaii.be sold on (doing) something He could see she was sold on the idea.sell out phrasal verb1 if a product, tickets, places at a concert, etc. sell out, they are all sold and there are none left: Tickets for the concert sold out in an hour. → see also sold out2 if a store sells out of something, it has no more of that particular thing left to sell → see also sold out3 sell something ↔ out if an event, performance, etc. sells out a place, it is so popular that all the tickets for it are sold → see also sellout4 disapproving to change your beliefs or principles, especially in order to get more money or some other advantage: His friends accused him of selling out. → see also sellout5 sell somebody ↔ out informal disapproving to disappoint someone by not doing what he or she expected you to do, or by helping and supporting someone else instead: The government has sold out middle class Americans. → see also sellout6 to sell your business, your share in a business, or a piece of property: He was forced to sell out to pay off his debts. verb | noun sellsell2 noun a hard/tough sell something that is difficult to persuade people to buy or accept: This tax hike is going to be a hard sell to voters. → see also soft sell |
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