peddle
英语
编辑词源
编辑pedlar 的逆構詞。(对比burgle←burglar。)
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编辑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)
- 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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- 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.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (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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编辑参考资料
编辑- “peddle”,Lexico,Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press,2019–present年.