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  *卖* | 卖* | *卖
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt
HSK 2
(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
HSK 2
to buy and sell
HSK 5
to auction / auction sale / to sell at a reduced price
HSK 7-9
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
to sell / to peddle / to traffic
HSK 7-9
to show off / to make a display of
HSK 7-9
to offer for sale; to sell / to sell out; to betray
HSK 7-9
specialty store
HSK 7-9
monopoly / exclusive right to trade
(big) store
to resell
purchase and sale; transaction / shop; store
to sell cheaply / sacrifice / low price / discount sale
to sell
prostitution / to prostitute oneself
to make money by selling sth
human trafficking / to abduct and sell / to kidnap and sell
to sell off (one's property)
to hold a charity bazaar; to sell goods for a good cause
to sell strongly; to be in great demand
selling price
seller (in contracts)
to prostitute oneself / to sell oneself into slavery
to sell short (finance)
to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away / to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
selling point
to hawk (one's wares) / to peddle
to mark down (the price of goods) / to sell off cheap
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
to betray one's country
outward appearance / demeanor
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦
to work hard / to do one's very best / to throw oneself into the task at hand
to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
to sing for a living
(in storytelling) to keep listeners in suspense / (in general) to keep people on tenterhooks
(idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
to play the fool (idiom) / to feign madness
(of a movie, show or restaurant) to attract customers / popular with the paying public; high-grossing / number of seats occupied (by moviegoers etc)
seller
to consign for sale
to engage in prostitution
to work as a good-time girl; to prostitute oneself
(idiom) to grant government positions or official titles in exchange for bribes
to speculate / to play the market / (fig.) to sell hot air / to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
to steal sth and sell it
to betray
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
(slang) to act cute
seller
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to sell off
to sell meat / (slang) to sell sex
to sell / to reach (a price in an auction)
to be sold out
to play stupid / to act like an idiot
hawking / street vending
to grant government positions in exchange for bribes
to sell wholesale
to do trade as a fortune teller
to sell at marked price / to sell by tender
to resell at a profit
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
kiosk / snack counter / retail department or section inside a larger business
auction / CL: 場|场
lit. to hang a sheep's head while selling dog meat (idiom) / fig. to cheat / dishonest advertising / wicked deeds carried out under banner of virtue
to overbook (e.g. airline seats) / to oversell
hypermarket / large warehouse-like self-service retail store
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
bazaar
to engage in speculative trading
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
traitor
a one-off, short-sighted deal / a one-shot, all-out attempt
to sell at a big discount
auctioneer / auction house
vending machine
buying and selling at fair prices
(vulgar) your mom's a prostitute (from Sichuan pronunciation of 媽賣屄|妈卖屄)
clearance sale / fire sale
lit. to fry and sell on the spot / fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school
food delivery person
to sell anything / to sell everything
to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
buying and selling of official positions
to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal
to peddle / to hawk (pirate goods)
furniture store / furniture mall
lit. the child sells the father's farm without regret (idiom) / fig. to sell one's inheritance without a second thought for how hard one's forebears worked for it
to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise / to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited
to press-gang sb and sell into slavery
to behave ingratiatingly
appealing; attractive (esp. to consumers)
lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned / enthusiasm of the new convert
hot-selling property
to have a sale / sale

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