英:[ˈhʌkstə(r)]
美:[ˈhʌkstɚ]
英:[ˈhʌkstə(r)]
美:[ˈhʌkstɚ]
huck·ster
huhk str
复数:hucksters
第三人称单数:hucksters
现在分词:huckstering
过去式:huckstered
过去分词:huckstered
hucksterism (n.)
词根:huckster
vt.hucksterize 强制推销
noun
hawker, peddlerespecially: one who sells or advertises something in an aggressive, dishonest, or annoying way
one who produces promotional material for commercial clients especially for radio or television
verb
intransitive verb
haggle
transitive verb
to deal in or bargain over
to promote aggressively
约于1200年,“小商贩,小贩”(常带有蔑视意味),源自中古荷兰语 hokester “小贩”,源自 hoken “叫卖”(参见 hawk(v.1)),加上代理后缀 -ster(在英语中通常是女性,但在低地德语中不是)。 “广告推销员”的具体意义来自弗雷德里克·韦克曼(Frederick Wakeman)1946年的小说。动词形式始于1590年代。相关词汇: Huckstered; huckstering。
Noun Middle English hukster, from Middle Dutch hokester, from hoeken to peddle
The first known use of huckster was in the 13th century
huenoun
color sense 1
a particular variety of a color : shade
an aspect of colors that allows them to be identified as red, yellow, green, blue, or something between any two of these colors
huenoun
color sense 1
a particular variety of a color : shade
an aspect of colors that allows them to be identified as red, yellow, green, blue, or something between any two of these colors
huddle1 of 2verb
to crowd, push, or pile together
people huddled in a doorway
to gather in a huddle in football
curl up, crouch
a child huddled in its crib
huddle2 of 2noun
a close-packed group : bunch
conference sense 1
a brief gathering of football players away from the line of scrimmage to hear instructions for the next play
huddle1 of 2verb
to crowd, push, or pile together
people huddled in a doorway
to gather in a huddle in football
curl up, crouch
a child huddled in its crib
huddle2 of 2noun
a close-packed group : bunch
conference sense 1
a brief gathering of football players away from the line of scrimmage to hear instructions for the next play
hucksternoun
one that peddles : hawker
hucksters selling souvenirs
a writer of advertising especially for radio or television
hucksternoun
one that peddles : hawker
hucksters selling souvenirs
a writer of advertising especially for radio or television
1 As was the case in the artist's real life, her huckster husband, Walter, is allowed to hog the spotlight.
2 Mr. O’Rahilly was no mariner — he suffered from seasickness — and he never spun a record, but he was the station’s handsome frontman and huckster.
3 The title is preposterous, a huckster gimmick; it may also be a dig at those who, I think wrongly, label him a misogynist because of the abuse he rains down on his female characters.
4 You can huckster over prices on the black market.
你可以在黑市上讨价还价。
5 Cortés is a gifted showman who relies on menacing, David Lynch-style atmospherics to conceal the fact that he’s a bigger huckster than De Niro’s blind psychic.
6 You want me to tell you Donald Trump’s a huckster and a fool.
7 Shame on the Times for promoting this huckster.
8 I became a huckster like the ones that had fascinated me.
9 Fad diets and exercise programs, ever the bread and butter of unscrupulous hucksters trying to make an easy buck on the internet, have likewise proved no match for crowdsourced research.
10 Mr. McCormack puts Pierce’s vulnerability and fear in the foreground, and avoids the huckster’s smirk that can sometimes mar his performances; he’s winning, and he has an easy rapport with Ms. Cook.
11 Prosecutors called him “a habitual liar and a fraudster” and “unrepentant, untiring, and uncontrollable huckster who has defrauded the unsuspecting for 30 years.”
12 As the leering prince of anarchy and irrepressible huckster Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, he's a ringer for the real article and a scampering hoot.
13 If Elmer Gantry was the Elijah, Armstrong’s the ‘Christ’ of religious hucksters.
14 Presidential elections are run by polling organizations, political consultants, and all manner of hucksters, frauds, and toadies.
15 And so the stars eat ludicrously hot wings, sit with a therapist they’ve never met, engage some aw-shucks huckster to connect them to the other side.
16 Tour buses disgorged passengers while hucksters worked the ticket line.
17 “These things mattered, and these are issues which are still relevant today,” said Darryl M. Bell, who played the Hillman huckster Ron Johnson.
18 This usually involves buying something and the only thing here growing is the huckster 's bank account.
这类故事往往涉及到买一些东西,与此同时,小贩们银行帐户里的存款却在上涨。
19 Woody's response was that an artist has to follow his own intuition, rather than obey some huckster driven by readership surveys.
伍迪的反应是,一个艺术家必须按照自己的直觉创作,而不能屈服于那些被阅读率调查驱使的商人们。
20 Ms Konnikova tells of hucksters masquerading as doctors, royals or moguls, all armed with a gifted imagination, a silver tongue and an ability to size people up.
1 上门推销员
2 掺假
4 广告人
6 奸商
7 广告撰稿员
9 零售
10 唯利是图的人
11 叫卖小贩
12 小贩
vendor butcher chapman costermonger higgler peddler hawker pitchman pedlar kiddier kidder faker butch crier peripatetic cryer higgle
14 讨价还价
haggle chaffer bargain dicker higgle palter bargaining argy-bargy argle-bargle prig horse-trading cheapen
15 唯利是图者