| 词汇 | touted |
| 释义 | touted past simple and past participle oftout tout verb uk /taʊt/ us /taʊt/ toutverb (MAKE KNOWN)[ T ] to advertise, talk about, or praise something or someone repeatedly, especially as a way of encouraging people to like, accept, or buy something: （尤指为了提高销售额、知名度或推动发展）给…做广告，宣传，赞扬，吹捧 The minister has been touting these ideas for some time.教育部长一段时间以来一直在宣传这些理念。 He is being widely touted as the next leader of the party.到处都在宣传他是党的下一任领袖。 A local car dealership was touting its services/wares on the radio.一家地方汽车特许经销商正在当地电台作宣传。 [ I ]mainly UK to repeatedly try to persuade people to buy your goods or services: 兜售；招徕 There were hundreds of taxis at the airport, all touting for business/custom.机场有数百辆出租车，都在拉生意／招徕乘客。 Advertising and marketing ad ad agency adman adverse publicity advert cross-selling customer relationship management demographics detoxify differentiator o.n.o. off-brand on-brand opinion mining overexpose tout trade dress unadvertised unbilled unbranded You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Selling toutverb (SELL UNOFFICIALLY)[ T ]UKdisapproving(USscalp) to sell tickets for something such as a sports game or theatre performance unofficially, usually at a much higher price than the official price: （通常以高出官方价格很多的价格）倒卖，高价出售（体育比赛票、戏票等） £30 seats for the match were being touted for £500.30英镑的比赛门票被票贩子高价卖到500英镑。 Trafficking & racketeering anti-racketeering anti-smuggling bagman black market contraband gun-running missell misselling modern slavery pass people trafficking racket scalp scammer screen sharing sell sell someone a bill of goodsidiom smuggle smuggling traffic Examples of toutedtouted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Free trade is currently being touted as the panacea to both economic and political ills. Long a favorite of vegetarians, the soybean is now touted as a potent cholesterol cutter. Infection is touted as a potential aetiological agent. Unlike many touted remedies, however, wake and light therapy are not alternative, unproved, or soft. Doing these well is hard work, but it is not, strictly speaking, transferable communication skills in the sense touted by the communication industry. In popular culture, wise lifestyle choices and active engagement in life are touted as pathways to happiness and longevity. Bioprospecting values have been both touted as the saviour of the world's biodiversity, and downplayed as being so small as to create no conservation incentive. Indeed, it is touted by many outsiders as a driving force for the region's political and economic transformation. Houseplants, with their air-cleaning effects, were touted as healthy for human inhabitants. Packaged in racial terms ('almond eyes', 'picturesque race', 'good figures') and clearly gendered, female nudity was touted to male customers. In consequence, the funded system, touted as a way to tackle the issue of an ageing population, has become the normative form. Although standardization is often touted as a cost-saving tool, it does not always result in lower costs. Just a few years after the event, the introduction of tuberculin was touted as a lesson on how not to proceed. But it would seem to be a more significant coincidence of events than the much touted, though imperfectly understood, failure of the court to hang any of the confessors. Agents are being used, and touted, for applications as diverse as personalised information management, electronic commerce, interface design, computer games, and management of complex commercial and industrial processes. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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