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  *賣* | 賣* | *賣
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
specialty store
HSK 7-9
to sell / to peddle / to traffic
HSK 7-9
to auction / auction sale / to sell at a reduced price
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
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
(big) store
to work hard / to do one's very best / to throw oneself into the task at hand
purchase and sale; transaction / shop; store
monopoly / exclusive right to trade
to resell
to sell / to reach (a price in an auction)
to sell
to sell strongly; to be in great demand
seller (in contracts)
to make a living doing manual labor / to give sth all one's got
prostitution / to prostitute oneself
selling point
selling price
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦
to consign for sale
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)
a one-off, short-sighted deal / a one-shot, all-out attempt
to sell off (one's property)
to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
to prostitute oneself / to sell oneself into slavery
to betray one's country
to hawk (one's wares) / to peddle
to sell short (finance)
outward appearance / demeanor
kiosk / snack counter / retail department or section inside a larger business
(in storytelling) to keep listeners in suspense / (in general) to keep people on tenterhooks
to mark down (the price of goods) / to sell off cheap
to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal
to engage in prostitution
(of a movie, show or restaurant) to attract customers / popular with the paying public; high-grossing / number of seats occupied (by moviegoers etc)
to sell cheaply / sacrifice / low price / discount sale
(idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
human trafficking / to abduct and sell / to kidnap and sell
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
traitor
trafficking in human beings
to sing for a living
to sell at marked price / to sell by tender
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 steal sth and sell it
to work as a good-time girl; to prostitute oneself
hawking / street vending
to grant government positions in exchange for bribes
(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
seller
to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
to hold a charity bazaar; to sell goods for a good cause
seller
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to engage in speculative trading
lit. to fry and sell on the spot / fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school
to do trade as a fortune teller
to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them)
to betray
to play the fool (idiom) / to feign madness
to make money by selling sth
(slang) to act cute
to exert flirtatious allure / to entice coquettishly
to sell meat / (slang) to sell sex
to be sold out
to solicit a bribe / to accept a bribe
to sell wholesale
to sell off
to flaunt a skill / to give display to one's ability / to show off a feat / to vaunt one's tricks
to play stupid / to act like an idiot
promotional event / sale
vending machine
hypermarket / large warehouse-like self-service retail store
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)
to be sold out / to be out of stock
to sell at a big discount
bazaar
The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易
food delivery person
appealing; attractive (esp. to consumers)
clearance sale / fire sale
to sell illicitly / to bootleg / to sell privately
to peddle / to hawk (pirate goods)
buying and selling at fair prices
(vulgar) your mom's a prostitute (from Sichuan pronunciation of 媽賣屄|妈卖屄)
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
auctioneer / auction house
auction / CL: 場|场

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