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HSK
(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
HSK 2
to buy and sell
HSK 5
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  *卖* | 卖* | *卖
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt
HSK 2
specialty store
HSK 7-9
to auction / auction sale / to sell at a reduced price
HSK 7-9
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦
selling point
prostitute; hooker
butcher
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
to offer for sale; to sell / to sell out; to betray
HSK 7-9
purchase and sale; transaction / shop; store
to sell strongly; to be in great demand
what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?
to be sold out / to be out of stock
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
seller (in contracts)
(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 meat / (slang) to sell sex
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
(idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
to sell
to sell off
to prostitute oneself / to sell oneself into slavery
to sell / to peddle / to traffic
HSK 7-9
food delivery person
hawking / street vending
to hold a charity bazaar; to sell goods for a good cause
to engage in speculative trading
traitor
to make a hard living as unskilled laborer
to make money by selling sth
to sell / to reach (a price in an auction)
lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned / enthusiasm of the new convert
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
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)
to betray one's country
to show off / to make a display of
HSK 7-9
lit. to fry and sell on the spot / fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school
to grant government positions in exchange for bribes
hot-selling property
vending machine
(big) store
to sell off (one's property)
to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them)
to work hard / to do one's very best / to throw oneself into the task at hand
to be sold out
kiosk / snack counter / retail department or section inside a larger business
to sing for a living
hypermarket / large warehouse-like self-service retail store
human trafficking / to abduct and sell / to kidnap and sell
to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
buying and selling of official positions
to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal
buying and selling at fair prices
auctioneer / auction house
(idiom) to grant government positions or official titles in exchange for bribes
promotional event / sale
monopoly / exclusive right to trade
bazaar
to speculate / to play the market / (fig.) to sell hot air / to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
outward appearance / demeanor
to make a living doing manual labor / to give sth all one's got
auction / CL: 場|场
to play the fool (idiom) / to feign madness
trafficking in human beings
selling price
to betray
to have a sale / sale
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
clearance sale / fire sale
seller
(slang) to act cute
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 sell cheaply / sacrifice / low price / discount sale
to consign for sale
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
to exert flirtatious allure / to entice coquettishly
to resell
to solicit a bribe / to accept a bribe
appealing; attractive (esp. to consumers)
to flaunt a skill / to give display to one's ability / to show off a feat / to vaunt one's tricks
(in storytelling) to keep listeners in suspense / (in general) to keep people on tenterhooks
furniture store / furniture mall
to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易
to sell short (finance)
to work as a good-time girl; to prostitute oneself
Dutch auction / descending-price auction
to hawk (one's wares) / to peddle
to engage in prostitution
to sell anything / to sell everything
GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)
prostitution / to prostitute oneself
to press-gang sb and sell into slavery
to resell at a profit
to behave ingratiatingly
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate

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