peddle

英 [ˈpedl]

美 [ˈpedl]

v.  挨户销售; 巡回销售; 兜售，宣传，传播(思想、消息)

现在分词：peddling　过去式：peddled　过去分词：peddled　第三人称单数：peddles　复数：peddles　

GRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.14997 / COCA.11632

牛津词典

verb

• 挨户销售；巡回销售
  to try to sell goods by going from house to house or from place to place
  1. He worked as a door-to-door salesman peddling cloths and brushes.
     他的工作是上门推销抹布和刷子。
  2. to peddle illegal drugs
     贩卖毒品
• 兜售，宣传，传播（思想、消息）
  to spread an idea or story in order to get people to accept it
  1. to peddle malicious gossip
     散布恶意的流言飞语
  2. This line (= publicly stated opinion) is being peddled by all the government spokesmen.
     所有的政府发言人都在宣扬这个官方路线。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 到处叫卖；兜售
  Someone whopeddlesthings goes from place to place trying to sell them.
  1. His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.
     他到伦敦小画廊兜售自己的画作，结果碰了一鼻子灰。
• VERB 贩卖（毒品）
  Someone whopeddlesdrugs sells illegal drugs.
  1. When a drug pusher offered the Los Angeles youngster $100 to peddle drugs, Jack refused.
     一个毒贩给杰克100美元让他贩卖毒品时，这个洛杉矶少年拒绝了。
• VERB 宣扬，散布（思想或消息）
  If someonepeddlesan idea or a piece of information, they try very hard to get people to accept it.
  1. They even set up their own news agency to peddle anti-isolationist propaganda.
     他们甚至设立了自己的通讯社来宣扬反孤立主义。

英英释义

verb

• sell or offer for sale from place to place
  Synonym:mongerhucksterhawkvendpitch

双语例句

• The worst anti-Chen venom has been limited largely to the websites where nationalist sentiment has revelled in the discomfort and embarrassment of a leader who dared to peddle his splittist agenda.
  怨气最重的反陈论调大部分局限在一些网站。在这些网站上，一位敢于兜售分裂主张的领导人所遭受的不便与尴尬，让民族主义情绪得到宣泄。
• These people are generally of dubious provenance, normally live in California and tend to peddle advice that is either irrelevant or out of date.
  这些家伙通常来历不明，自己住在美国加州，却试图提供一些要么不相干要么过时了的建议。
• One of the perks of my job is that I rarely run into boring fund managers trying to peddle a "new" take on equity investing.
  我的工作带给我的一项福利是，我很少遇到试图推销股票投资“新”看法的无趣基金经理。
• Despite its rejection by the scientific community, companies like Baby Genius continue to peddle classical music to parents of children who can supposedly listen their way to greater smarts.
  尽管受到科学界的否定，像“神童”这样的公司仍继续向家长们兜售古典乐，宣称孩子听了古典音乐就能增长聪明才智。
• Doctors who peddle sleep aid products and call for more sleep may unintentionally reinforce the idea that there is something wrong or off-kilter about interrupted sleep cycles.
  医生们兜售帮助睡眠药物，并且提倡更多的睡眠，这些行为无意中强化了这样的观念：睡眠中断是有问题的或者状态不好的。
• I do not mean to be alarmist, nor to peddle the facile notion of history repeating itself.
  我并不想耸人听闻，也不是要兜售那个老掉牙的说法即历史总是重演。
• The right peddle of your bicycle has come loose; you'd better fix it.
  你的自行车右脚踏板松动了，最好修一修。
• She loves to peddle gossip round the village.
  她喜欢在村里到处说闲话。
• As fewer women wanted to peddle Avon products, its sales sagged.
  随着愿意直销雅芳产品的妇女人数减少，其销售开始下降。
• I would harvest worm-laden segments of the stalks, cut to a uniform length, and peddle them in bundles to the fishermen in their rowboats, gliding up to them in my canoe.
  我会采摘这样的茎节，并把它切成统一的尺寸，一包一包地装好，乘着我的独木舟向划艇上的垂钓者们叫卖。