sale

英 [se?l] 美[sel]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?sales;

sale 銷售

來自 sell 的名詞形式，比較 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.

2. The beans are then ground and packaged for sale as ground coffee.: 然后那些咖啡豆被磨碎，包裝好作為咖啡粉出售。

3. In 1991, the house was advertised for sale at $49,000.: 1991年，這座房子登廣告出售，售價(jià)為49,000美元。