touts

英 [taʊts]

美 [taʊts]

v.  标榜; 吹捧; 吹嘘; 兜售; 推销; (尤指在剧院、体育场等外)倒卖高价票，卖黑市票
n.  (音乐会、体育比赛等的)卖高价票的人，票贩子
tout的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 兜售;吹嘘
  If someonetoutssomething, they try to sell it or convince people that it is good.
  1. It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates.
     它具有美国竞选活动的典型特征，即通过华而不实的电视广告来吹嘘候选人。
  2. …a popular advertising industry practice of using performers to tout products…
     广告业常用的利用艺人来兜售产品的做法
  3. He was being touted as the most interesting thing in pop…
     他被吹捧为流行乐坛最有意思的家伙。
  4. The product is touted as being completely natural.
     该产品被吹嘘为是全天然的。
  5. …a couple of highly touted novels.
     几本被吹得天花乱坠的小说
• VERB 兜揽;招徕
  If someonetouts forbusiness or custom, they try to obtain it.
  1. He visited Thailand and Singapore to tout for investment...
     他访问了泰国与新加坡，以期招揽投资。
  2. Minicabs are not allowed to tout for hire on the streets.
     小型出租车禁止在街上兜揽生意。
• VERB (在体育场或剧院外)倒卖(高价票)
  If someonetoutstickets, they sell them outside a sports ground or theatre, usually for more than their original value.
  1. ...a man who made his money touting tickets...
     靠倒票捞钱的人
  2. The queue stretches several hundred yards and tickets are touted for a tenner.
     队伍排得有几百码长，票被炒到 10 英镑一张。

in AM, use 美国英语用 scalp


• 票贩子;“黄牛”
  Atoutis someone who sells things such as tickets unofficially, usually at prices which are higher than the official ones.

in AM, use 美国英语用 scalper

双语例句

• On trips to Brazil for Carnival, he saw signs of the economic progress the country had made: Desperate hustlers, touts and money changers didn't swarm him at the airport any more.
  在前往巴西参加狂欢节的途中，他看到尼日利亚取得经济进步的迹象：机场不再有骗子、票贩子和货币兑换商不顾一切地朝他涌来。
• On the other, he touts his biracial, multicultural background as an advantage when it comes to representing the U.S.abroad.
  另一方面，他使劲兜售自己的黑白混血的多元文化背景，就广泛代表美国来说，他的这种背景倒是一种优势。
• The visitor has to throw off the swarm of guides and hotel touts who cluster round the station entrance.
  游客不得不摆脱簇拥在车站入口处的那群向导和替旅馆揽客者的纠缠。
• Each vendor naturally touts the strengths of their adopted approach, and highlights the weaknesses inherent in those of their competitors.
  很自然地，每个供应商都吹捧他们采用的方法功能多么强大，同时也强调竞争对手采用的方法固有的弱点。
• With the weather warming up, illegal touts are already out in force in the main tourist areas along the harbour and seafront of Kato Paphos.
  随着天气变暖，非法师爷是列于沿加藤帕福斯港口和海滨旅游区的主要力量了。
• He touts the benefits of prevention, citing his own life-saving weight loss as an example.
  他宣扬预防的好处，以他自己救命的减肥为例子。
• Many vouchers are returned for cash, allowing touts and middlemen to make a healthy profit margin.
  许多月饼券都被兑换成现金，这让券贩子和中间商赚取了不蜚的利润。
• Once you disembark, hordes of taxi touts will pounce on you, asking if you would like a taxi to your hotel.
  一旦你下车，很多的士托儿就会想你涌来，问你要不要作的士去酒店。
• And while the music is a bit narrow in scope ( the website touts it as high quality noncommercial underground electronic dance music), it can serve as a good jumping-off point for those who want to see more of Chinese culture.
  虽然该音乐节的乐曲范围有点窄（官网宣称它是高品质的非商业地下电子舞曲），但是对那些想更多了解中国文化的人来说，它是个很好的切入点。
• Mr Lu touts the "new Beijing, New Olympics" slogan as symbolising its efforts to pursue modernisation.
  陆海军表示，“新北京、新奥运”的口号，象征北京追求现代化的努力。