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

• It doesn't help that today is a Sunday, so the usual bustle of hawkers, pedestrians and cars that enliven the empty drabness are missing.
  虽然我们来的这天是星期天，可往常小贩的叫卖声，行人和汽车，这些让空寂的街道充满活力的嘈杂声，通通消失了。
• 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。
• Right after the concert, hawkers already took the opportunity, busy selling the concert photos, HK$ 60 per set of big and small pictures.
  散场后，已经有投机小贩热闹叫卖，大小照片一套六十元。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。