sale

英 [seɪl] 美 [sel]

解释

※ 提供单词"sale"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

sale 销售

来自 sell 的名词形式，比较 tale,tell.

sale: sale: [11] Sale was borrowed from Old Norse sala. This came from the same prehistoric Germanic base, *sal-, that produced English sell. The word’s specific application to the ‘selling of goods at lower-than-normal prices’ did not emerge until the 1860s.
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sale (n.): late Old English sala "a sale, act of selling," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse sala "sale," from Proto-Germanic *salo (cognates: Old High German sala, Swedish salu, Danish salg), from PIE root *sal- (3) "to grasp, take." Sense of "a selling of shop goods at lower prices than usual" first appeared 1866. Sales tax attested by 1886. Sales associate by 1946. Sales representative is from 1910.

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2. The beans are then ground and packaged for sale as ground coffee.: 然后那些咖啡豆被磨碎，包装好作为咖啡粉出售。

3. In 1991, the house was advertised for sale at $49,000.: 1991年，这座房子登广告出售，售价为49,000美元。