hawkers

英 [ˈhɔːkəz]

美 [ˈhɔkərz]

n.  沿街叫卖者; 小贩
hawker的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 街头小贩;上门推销员
  You can usehawkerto refer to a person who tries to sell things by calling at people's homes or standing in the street, especially when you do not approve of this activity.
  1. ...as soon as she saw that it was a visitor and not a hawker or tramp at her door.
     她一看到门口站着的是位访客而不是街头小贩或流浪汉…

双语例句

• Under my window a beggar has just struck up a song and is almost drowned out by the cries of the hawkers.
  在我的窗户下，一个乞丐弹起一首歌曲，歌声几乎被叫卖小贩给淹没了。
• Regulators have been cooling off the squabble since Sunday, assuring the anxious broth hawkers that their recipes need not be unveiled for public viewing, the China Daily said.
  《中国日报》报道说，监管机构自上周日开始便一直在平息这场争论，并向这些担心火锅底料配方揭露的老板们保证说，他们的配方不必向大众公开。
• During the Shanghai Expo, hawkers have been forced out of public areas and into covered markets.
  在上海世博会期间，小贩被要求禁止在露天售卖，而在封闭的集贸市场里贩卖商品。
• Chengguan, an urban control force charged with keeping the peace, ridding China's cities of illegal street hawkers and unlicensed taxi cabs, and checking permits.
  城管，一股控制管理城市的力量，负责维护社会的和谐安定，检查核对执照，查处流落在城市中的非法街头小贩以及无照出租汽车。
• Eastern District Licensed Hawkers Fraternal Association
  北角区持牌小贩联谊会
• In the noisy basement, hawkers of leather goods buttonhole passing foreigners, cajoling until all hope of a sale is lost.
  在嘈杂的大厅，皮具小贩强拉住过往的外国人，巧舌如簧，除非他们做生意的希望彻底落空。
• Hawkers plied up and down the platform.
  霍克斯不停地在站台上来回踱步。
• But queues of citizens will still be trundled in, as at Jiuzhaigou, to tread the boardwalks and purchase tchotchkes from costumed hawkers at the end of the bus route.
  但是，象在九寨沟一样，成群结队的市民仍然会涌进景区，踩着木板栈道，在巴士路线的终点盛装的小贩那里买上廉价艳丽的小饰物。
• Cars run to and fro, and hawkers hawk along them all day long.
  汽车来来往往，小贩整天沿街叫卖。
• The usual motley crowd of tourists, hawkers and pigeons
  一群像往常一样杂乱的游客、小贩、鸽子