peddle

英语

词源

pedlar 的逆構詞。（对比burgle←burglar。）

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈpɛdəl/
• 韻部：-ɛdəl
• 同音詞：pedal, petal (部分方言)

动词

peddle (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 peddles，現在分詞 peddling，一般過去時及過去分詞 peddled)

1. 兜售，叫卖
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, 章號 3, 出自 Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

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2. 贩（毒）
   • 1974, 片头起42:19, 出自 Gone in 60 Seconds:

     - How much you think this stuff is worth?
     - Yeah, there must be a million bucks' worth.
     - Think we could peddle it?
     - Oh, you can always get rid of it.

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3. (貶義，比喻義) 传播，散播
   • 2009, Michael John Beashel, Unshackled，第 166 頁:

     Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.

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   • 2012, Niamh O'Connor, Taken，第 166 頁:

     Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.

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   • 2014年10月21日, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, 出自 The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎^[1]:

     Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.

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   • 2022年1月12日, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, 出自 RAIL, 第 948 期，第 3 頁:

     As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".

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相关词汇

• peddler、pedlar
• peddling

参考资料

• “peddle”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.