They sold the business at a profit/loss. 他们把公司让出赢利 / 亏本让出。
The company eventually sold out to a multinational media group.
公司最终卖给了一个跨国传媒集团。
We offered them a good price but they wouldn't sell.
我们开了个好价钱,但他们不愿卖。
Most supermarkets sell a range of organic products.
多数超级市场都经销一系列有机产品。
Do you sell stamps?
你这儿卖邮票吗?
to sell insurance
卖保险
The pens sell for just 50p each.
这些钢笔每支只卖50便士。
The magazine sells 300 000 copies a week.
这份杂志一周售出30万册。
sell sth/yourself (to sb)
推荐;推销;自荐;自我推销
Now we have to try and sell the idea to management.
现在,我们必须设法说服管理层采纳这个意见。
You really have to sell yourself at a job interview.
应聘面试的时候,你真得推销你自己。
注意:
sell someone on 以……说服某人
She sold me on her idea. I think it will work.
她用她的看法说服了我,我想那行得通。
sell your body
出卖肉体;卖春
sell your soul (to the devil)
出卖灵魂(或良心)
sell sb/yourself short
低估,轻视,小瞧(某人或自己)
sell sb down the river
出卖(答应要帮助的人) to give poor or unfair treatment to sb you have promised to help
【词源】From the custom of buying and selling slaves on the plantations on the Mississippi river in America. Slaves who caused trouble for their masters could be sold to plantation owners lower down the river, where conditions would be worse. 源自美国密西西比河沿岸种植园之间的奴隶买卖。惹麻烦的奴隶可能被主人卖到下游条件更为恶劣的种植园里。
be sold on sth
热衷于;对…极感兴趣
to be very enthusiastic about sth
You know, I wasn't sold on this trip in the beginning.