- A huckster is someone who tries to sell you something that's not very well made, or isn't worth the price. If someone tries to sell you a bottle of Love Potion #9, call him a huckster.
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- vt. 叫卖；讨价还价
- n. 叫卖的小贩；小商人；吃广告饭的人
- vi. 叫卖；做小商贩
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1. They tried to huckster red socks to me.
他们企图强行向我推销红色短袜。
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2. The best part is understanding how the magician, or huckster, plays on our human nature to get us to behave in a certain way.
最棒的部分就是理解魔术师或者街头骗子如何通过人类的本性来操纵我们的行为。
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3. Woody's response was that an artist has to follow his own intuition, rather than obey some huckster driven by readership surveys.
伍迪的反应是，一个艺术家必须按照自己的直觉创作，而不能屈服于那些被阅读率调查驱使的商人们。
- huckster (n.) c. 1200, "petty merchant, peddler" (often contemptuous), from Middle Dutch hokester "peddler," from hoken "to peddle" (see hawk (v.1)) + agent suffix -ster (which was typically feminine in English, but not in Low German). Specific sense of "advertising salesman" is from 1946 novel by Frederick Wakeman. As a verb from 1590s. Related: Huckstered; huckstering.
huck·ster / ˈhʌkstə(r) ; NAmE ˈhʌkstər / noun ( old-fashioned) ( NAmE) 1 ( disapproving) a person who uses aggressive or annoying methods to sell sth 强行推销的人 2 a person who sells things in the street or by visiting people's houses 沿街叫卖的小贩；上门推销员 huckster hucksters huckstered huckstering huck·ster / ˈhʌkstə(r) ; NAmE ˈhʌkstər /
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