peddle
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词源[编辑]
pedlar 的逆构词。（对比burgle←burglar。）
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动词[编辑]
peddle (第三人称单数简单现在时 peddles, 现在分词 peddling, 一般过去时及过去分词 peddled)
- 兜售，叫卖
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, 章号 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?
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- (贬义，比喻义) 传播，散播
- 2009, Michael John Beashel, Unshackled，页号 166:
- Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.
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- 2012, Niamh O'Connor, Taken，页号 166:
- Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.
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- 2014 10月 21, 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 1月 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, 出自 RAIL, 期 948，页号 3:
- 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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- “peddle”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.