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

• She would oftentimes wear wrinkled baggy pajamas and bargain heatedly with hawkers in the market with such a loud voice that everyone could hear.
  她经常穿着皱巴巴、松垮垮的睡衣，在菜市场和小贩讨价还价，大嗓门能惊动整条大街。
• Dad met us at the gangplank and guided us through the swarms of hawkers and children begging for coins with outstretched hands.
  爸爸在跳板上遇到我们，并带我们穿过那群叫卖的小贩和伸手讨钱的儿童乞丐。
• The station's buffet: People were in a hurry to get on the train, and hawkers hawked as hard as they could, pushing the "buffet car" back and forth to catch passengers who needed some food or drink.
  《站内的小卖摊》上车的人匆匆忙忙，小贩也在使劲地吆喝着，推着车来回地搜寻着有需要的乘客。
• Where necessary, hawker-handling centres are set up in police stations to facilitate charging formalities of arrested hawkers.
  如有需要，警署内会设立小贩处理中心，方便办理检控被捕小贩的手续。
• Kinshasa, desperately poor with its streets full of hawkers and smell of diesel and sewage, is alien, but Gracia has got to stay.
  在极度贫困的金沙萨，在这个大街小巷充斥着小贩、柴油味和污水味的陌生城市，加西亚必须留下。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• When night falls, the whole city, which was quiet during the daytime, suddenly turns into a bustling one with food stalls and hawkers selling all kinds of foods.
  夜幕降临后，原本很安静的城市马上变成了另一番景象，食品摊上的叫卖声、吆喝声此起彼伏，小贩们正忙着出售各种食物。