tout
tout 英 [taʊt] 美 [taʊt]
vt. 兜售；招徕；刺探赛马情报 vi. 兜售；招徕顾客；拉选票 n. 侦查者；兜售者
进行时:touting 过去式:touted 过去分词:touted 第三人称单数:touts 名词复数:touts
- To tout means to praise, boast, or brag about. If you like to tout your skill as a skier, you tell people you can go down expert-level hills.
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- vt. 兜售；招徕；刺探赛马情报
- vi. 兜售；招徕顾客；拉选票
- n. 侦查者；兜售者
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1. We should tout our wares on television.
我们应该在电视上兜售商品。
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2. They are not embarrassed to ask for favours or tout business propositions at family dinners.
在家庭的聚会上对沾点小便宜或者是兜售商品，他们一点也不感到尬尴。
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3. Those Americans are seen as culturally inept and unwilling to provide substantive oversight, even though they tout the integrity of their systems.
尽管那些美国人兜售自己体制的公正与清白，他们看上去好像在文化上无能和不愿提供实质上的监管。
- tout (v.) 1700, thieves' cant, "to act as a lookout, spy on," from Middle English tuten "to peep, peer," probably from a variant of Old English totian "to stick out, peep, peer," from Proto-Germanic *tut- "project" (source also of Dutch tuit "sprout, snout," Middle Dutch tute "nipple, pap," Middle Low German tute "horn, funnel," Old Norse tota "teat, toe of a shoe"). The sense developed to "look out for jobs, votes, customers, etc., to try to get them" (1731), then "praise highly in an attempt to sell" (1920). Related: Touted; touting.
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