hawking
n. 利用鷹行獵
A hawk is a large bird with a short, hooked beak, sharp claws, and very good eyesight. Hawks catch and eat small birds and animals.
In politics, if you refer to someone as a hawk, you mean that they believe in using force and violence to achieve something, rather than using more peaceful or diplomatic methods.
Both hawks and doves have expanded their conditions for ending the war.
鷹派和鴿派都充分闡明瞭各自的停戰條件。
If someone hawks goods, they sell them by walking through the streets or knocking at people's houses, and asking people to buy them.
...vendors hawking trinkets.
沿街兜售小飾品的小販
You can say that someone is hawking something if you do not like the forceful way in which they are asking people to buy it.
Developers will be hawking cut-price flats and houses.
開發商會竭力推銷減價的公寓和房子。
If someone hawks, they noisily clear mucus from their throat and spit it out.
He hawked and spat.
他用力咳了咳,吐了口痰。
If you watch someone like a hawk, you observe them very carefully, usually to make sure that they do not make a mistake or do something you do not want them to do.
1. the act of selling goods for a living
Most of the women were hawking food around the various prisons.
其中大多數婦女在各個監獄周邊兜售食品。
He is hawking around a 15-minute, £5,000 promotional video.
他正在四處推銷一部長15分鐘、價值5,000英鎊的宣傳錄影片。
Developers will be hawking cut-price flats and houses.
開發商會竭力推銷減價的公寓和房子。
He is hawking his goods everywhere.
他在到處兜售他的貨物.
Stephen Hawking's achievements earned him the acclaim of the entire scientific community.
斯蒂芬.霍金的成就使他贏得了整個科學界的讚揚.