touts
英 [taʊts]
美 [taʊts]
v. 标榜; 吹捧; 吹嘘; 兜售; 推销; (尤指在剧院、体育场等外)倒卖高价票,卖黑市票
n. (音乐会、体育比赛等的)卖高价票的人,票贩子
tout的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- VERB 兜售;吹嘘
If someonetoutssomething, they try to sell it or convince people that it is good.- It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates.
它具有美国竞选活动的典型特征,即通过华而不实的电视广告来吹嘘候选人。 - …a popular advertising industry practice of using performers to tout products…
广告业常用的利用艺人来兜售产品的做法 - He was being touted as the most interesting thing in pop…
他被吹捧为流行乐坛最有意思的家伙。 - The product is touted as being completely natural.
该产品被吹嘘为是全天然的。 - …a couple of highly touted novels.
几本被吹得天花乱坠的小说
- It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates.
- VERB 兜揽;招徕
If someonetouts forbusiness or custom, they try to obtain it.- He visited Thailand and Singapore to tout for investment...
他访问了泰国与新加坡,以期招揽投资。 - Minicabs are not allowed to tout for hire on the streets.
小型出租车禁止在街上兜揽生意。
- He visited Thailand and Singapore to tout for investment...
- VERB (在体育场或剧院外)倒卖(高价票)
If someonetoutstickets, they sell them outside a sports ground or theatre, usually for more than their original value.- ...a man who made his money touting tickets...
靠倒票捞钱的人 - The queue stretches several hundred yards and tickets are touted for a tenner.
队伍排得有几百码长,票被炒到 10 英镑一张。
- ...a man who made his money touting tickets...
- 票贩子;“黄牛”
Atoutis someone who sells things such as tickets unofficially, usually at prices which are higher than the official ones.
in AM, use 美国英语用 scalp
in AM, use 美国英语用 scalper
双语例句
- On trips to Brazil for Carnival, he saw signs of the economic progress the country had made: Desperate hustlers, touts and money changers didn't swarm him at the airport any more.
在前往巴西参加狂欢节的途中,他看到尼日利亚取得经济进步的迹象:机场不再有骗子、票贩子和货币兑换商不顾一切地朝他涌来。 - It would also explain why ticket touts still make a living.
它也是票贩子之所以仍能维持生计的原因所在。 - However, undercover reporters from the Sunday Times posing as Middle Eastern ticket touts claim to have found 27 officials and agents who were willing to do business.
但是《星期日泰晤士报》的暗访记者假装成中东票贩子,发现有27个官员和官方票务处乐意倒票。 - With the weather warming up, illegal touts are already out in force in the main tourist areas along the harbour and seafront of Kato Paphos.
随着天气变暖,非法师爷是列于沿加藤帕福斯港口和海滨旅游区的主要力量了。 - Once you disembark, hordes of taxi touts will pounce on you, asking if you would like a taxi to your hotel.
一旦你下车,很多的士托儿就会想你涌来,问你要不要作的士去酒店。 - He touts the benefits of prevention, citing his own life-saving weight loss as an example.
他宣扬预防的好处,以他自己救命的减肥为例子。 - Package software touts its customizability, but there are limits to how much can be tailored.
打包软件吹嘘其可定制性,但还是有对定制程度的限制。 - Notwithstanding the illegality of this trade, you are advised for your own safety not to follow these touts into any private buildings.
由于这个行业是违法经营,而且为了个人的安全,请勿跟随表贩进入任何私人楼宇。 - In a country in which carmakers are establishing themselves and fighting foreign brands for market share, SAIC touts its British ties.
中国汽车制造商正纷纷努力站稳脚跟,与外国品牌争夺市场份额,在这种背景下,上汽大力宣传其与英国的关系。 - The farming and pharmaceutical industry touts nuclear transfer as a way to make animals with desirable characteristics, such as production of cattle that produce human proteins in their milk.
畜牧和制药业把核移植技术视为获取特定性状动物的一种途径。例如,运用此技术得到产的奶中有人类蛋白质的牛。