huckster

美 [ˈhʌkstər]英 [ˈhʌkstə(r)]
  • n.强行推销的人;沿街叫卖的小贩;上门推销员
  • v.讨价还价;强行推销;吹嘘

复数: hucksters

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noun

1

强行推销的人
a person who uses aggressive or annoying methods to sell sth

2

沿街叫卖的小贩;上门推销员
a person who sells things in the street or by visiting people's houses

huckster

频次

  • 1
    N-COUNT (采用欺骗或强行手段推销无用物品的)推销员,商贩
    If you refer to someone as a huckster, you are criticizing them for trying to sell useless or worthless things in a dishonest or aggressive way.

    A huckster offered to sell Carnegie the formula for guaranteed success for $20,000.

    一名骗子推销员提出以两万美元的价格卖给卡内基一张保证成功的秘方。

noun

1
a seller of shoddy goods
Synonym: cheap-jack
2
a person who writes radio or tv advertisements

verb

1
wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Let's not haggle over a few dollars
Synonym: haggle higgle chaffer
2
sell or offer for sale from place to place
Synonym: peddle monger hawk vend pitch

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  1. A huckster offered to sell Carnegie the formula for guaranteed success for $ 20,000 .

    一名骗子推销员提出以两万美元的价格卖给卡内基一张保证成功的秘方。

  2. This usually involves buying something and the only thing here growing is the huckster 's bank account .

    这类故事往往涉及到买一些东西,与此同时,小贩们银行帐户里的存款却在上涨。

  3. And there was also a regular huckster , to whom the house belonged , and who occupied the ground floor .

    同时有一个名副其实的小商人,住在第一层楼上,拥有整幢房子。

  4. Be in China , every does the big huckster that flowers trades , do not know without the person " Kunming is fought south " .

    在中国,凡做花卉交易的大小商人,没有人不知道“昆明斗南”的。

  5. Web page design has evolved from original " huckster " style business brief introduction to concentration on individuation , and been promoted to present the cultural intension of certain business .

    尤其是在设计理念上,网页设计已经由最初的叫卖式的商业简介,逐渐发展为更注重个性化的表现形式,在体现商业的文化内涵方面也有了更进一步的提高。

  6. I 'm tired of being a huckster .

    我厌倦了当小贩的日子

  7. The newly-issued Regulations of the Individual Businesses authorized the power to administrate the small businessmen to local government , but the local legislation always takes a negative attitude to huckster .

    新颁布的《个体工商户条例》将对摊贩的规定的权力授权给地方政府,但是地方立法多对小商人持否定态度。

  8. But the goblin felt very angry that any man should venture to say such things to a huckster who was a householder and sold the best butter .

    但是那个小鬼却生了气:居然有人敢对一个卖最好的黄油的商人兼房东说出这样的话来。

  9. A goblin lived with the huckster , because at Christmas he always had a large dish full of jam , with a GREat piece of butter in the middle .

    一个小鬼就跟这个小商人住在一起,因为在这儿,在每个圣诞节的前夕,他总能得到一盘麦片粥吃,里面还有一大块黄油!

  10. This was a very rude speech , especially against the cask ; but the huckster and the student both laughed , for it was only said in fun .

    这句话说得很没有礼貌,特别是用那个盆子作比喻;但是小商人大笑起来,学生也大笑起来,因为这句话不过是开开玩笑罢了。

  11. The huckster 's wife was so bewildered that she took her gold ear-rings out of her ears and put them in her pocket , that she might save something at least .

    小商人的太太给弄糊涂了,连忙扯下耳朵上的金耳环,塞进衣袋,以为这样总算救出了一点东西。

  12. As soon as it was night , and the shop closed , and every one in bed except the student , the goblin stepped softly into the bedroom where the huckster 's wife slept , and took away her tongue , which of course , she did not then want .

    黑夜到来了,店铺关上了门;除了学生以外,所有的人都上床去睡了。这时小鬼就走进来,拿起小商人的太太的舌头,因为她在睡觉的时候并不需要它。