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词汇 car-boot-sale
释义 car boot sale
noun[ C ]
UKuk /ˌkɑː ˈbuːt ˌseɪl/ us /ˌkɑːr ˈbuːt ˌseɪl/(USswap meet)
an event in a public place where people sell their unwanted possessions, often from the backs of their cars(常将旧物摆放在汽车尾箱中出售的)旧货出售
 
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The situation is quite different at a carbootsale where one is face to face during a transaction.
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Any fee charged to participants selling goods at a carbootsale is at the discretion of the operator.
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It is not so much a mixed economy as a carbootsale.
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No one can have any objection to an occasionally held carbootsale on behalf of those organisations.
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The same cannot be said for carbootsale operators, or some of the unscrupulous private market operators.
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That prevents the other feature of the modern age, the carbootsale.
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Are they happy about that at your neighbouring carbootsale?
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I see the carbootsale as very much a people's market.
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Someone—perhaps a farmer—takes a sort of rental for the number of people coming to a big carbootsale.
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One wonders whether it would have been better if the authorities had gone to a carbootsale.
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A trader at a carbootsale would be liable according to normal provisions of the civil law for any damage or injury caused by goods which he sells.
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It is as much an offence for a trader at a carbootsale to sell unsafe goods as it is for anybody else to do so.
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I agree that a member of the public cannot possibly know the nature of the business involved in a carbootsale or a shop squat.
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A simpler way to deal with the problem would be for the carbootsale organiser to register the car and the number plate as each car goes in.
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The site is also used for a weekly carbootsale.
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