Sell

(noun.) the activity of persuading someone to buy; 'it was a hard sell'.

(verb.) persuade somebody to accept something; 'The French try to sell us their image as great lovers'.

(verb.) give up for a price or reward; 'She sold her principles for a successful career'.

(verb.) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; 'He sold his house in January'; 'She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit'.

(verb.) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way; 'These books sell like hot cakes'.

(verb.) be responsible for the sale of; 'All her publicity sold the products'.

(verb.) be approved of or gain acceptance; 'The new idea sold well in certain circles'.

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• I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Sell her her waste, please, and give her good measure if you can make up your mind to do the liberal thing for once. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Have we nothing to sell? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If we didn't want to sell it for the most we can get for it, we shouldn't do it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is a mere toss up whether I shall ever do more than keep myself decently, unless I choose to sell myself as a mere pen and a mouthpiece. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Most cutters remove as little of the rough stone as possible in cutting so as to retain weight (they sell by weight). 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could not have enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She had sold it to become Sir Pitt Crawley's wife. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Why the bookseller that sold me the Wonderful Museum--where's the Wonderful Museum? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If I could have hoped it would have brought in nearly the sum wanted, I'd have sold all long ago. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Bring out some of the gold you sold yourself to the devil for. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Buying and selling was transacted by means of money in England then as well as now. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The dogfish are selling it somewhere else. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The stock was then selling at about 25, and in the later consolidation with the Western Union went in at about 60; so that the real purchase price was not less than $1,000,000 in cash. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A part of their wool and raw hides, they had generally an opportunity of selling for money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A sight of times better to be selling diments than nobbling about here. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The seller is almost always under the necessity of selling, and must, therefore, take such a price as he can get. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In the hand addressograph, which sells for as low as $27, he has worked out three practical models having an average speed of from 750 to 1,500 names and addresses an hour. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He sells, therefore, his rude produce for money, with which he can purchase, wherever it is to be had, the manufactured produce he has occasion for. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The more he sells the more he has for sale, said one priest. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Thirdly, that little man in St. James' Street, who sells box-combs, I forget his name, cut her hair at least an inch too short on the forehead. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Them as sells heart's love and heart's blood, to get out thar scrapes, de Lord'll be up to 'em! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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