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Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary
- 卖
[mài]
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动
用实物换取货币；售出
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卖菜
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把车卖了
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拍卖。
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2.
动
用劳动、技艺等换取钱财
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卖苦力
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卖艺
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卖唱。
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动
出卖国家、民族和他人利益以达到个人目的
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卖身投靠
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卖国投敌
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卖友求荣。
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4.
动
尽量使出来
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卖力气
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卖命。
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5.
动
故意显示自己；炫耀
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倚老卖老
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卖乖
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卖弄。
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量
旧时饭馆称所卖的一份菜叫一卖
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一卖熘里脊。
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7.
上边是"十"，不是"士"或"土"。
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买卖买卖，和气生财。
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Do business with a smile, and you'll make a pile.
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交拍卖行拍卖
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come under the hammer
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我打算填写一张卖单，卖出我手里的所有股票。
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I am going to fill a voucher of sale and sell all my shares.
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这个著名的拍卖行经常举办大型拍卖会。
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The famous auction house often holds large-scale auctions.
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街口有一家专卖小肚儿的小卖店。
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There is a delicatessen selling items made of pigs' bladder stuffed with pork and corn starch around the corner of the street.
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这家餐馆专门开设一个窗口卖小卖。
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This restaurant has especially opened a window for individual customers.
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卖花的女孩沿街叫卖，可惜没有人买她的花。
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The flower girl sold alongside the road, but no one bought her flowers.
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卖冰糖葫芦的老爷爷走街串巷地叫卖。
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The old man was wandering on the streets selling sugarcoated haws on sticks.
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变卖产业
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sell off one's estate
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那姑娘摆过茶摊，卖过大碗茶。
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That girl once set up a roadside stall and sold big bowls of tea to passersby.
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nciku Note
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售, 出售 and 卖
shòu, chūshòu and mài
The three words all mean “to sell”, 卖 is the most colloquial, and the other two are more literary. Since 出售 is disyllabic, its syllabic collocation is different. In the following colloquial sentences, 卖 is used.
(1) 那里卖的东西又便宜又好。
(2) 这件衣服现在卖多少钱？
卖 can be used in an abstract meaning.
(3) 他是卖苦力的，靠力气吃饭。
(4) 我是不会卖友求荣的。
售 is literary.
(5) 本店存书不多，售（卖）完为止。
(6) 我们去售票处买票吧。
出售 is even more literary and mostly applied to big batches of merchandise. It is usually in collocation with disyllabic words.
(7) 本店商品，一律降价出售。
(8) 这个国家以在国际上出售矿石著称。
In addition, 卖 can also mean “not to spare”. The other two words have no such usage.
(9) 他干活很卖力。
这三个动词都表示在交易中用物换取钱。“卖”最口语化，“出售”和“售”则较书面化。“出售”是双音节词，因此在音节搭配上也有特殊性。以下口语的与子中，一般用“卖”。
“卖”也可以用于抽象意义。
“售”较书面化。
“出售”更为书面化，多用于大宗商品，在音节上多与双音节词搭配。
另外，“卖”还可以表示不吝惜等，其他两个词没有这种用法。
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