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。
• Dad met us at the gangplank and guided us through the swarms of hawkers and children begging for coins with outstretched hands.
  爸爸在跳板上遇到我们，并带我们穿过那群叫卖的小贩和伸手讨钱的儿童乞丐。
• As the police approached, the hawkers rolled their goods in a blanket and ran into the crowd.
  警察来了，小贩们用毯子卷起他们的商品钻进人群。
• Eastern District Licensed Hawkers Fraternal Association
  北角区持牌小贩联谊会
• 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
• Where necessary, hawker-handling centres are set up in police stations to facilitate charging formalities of arrested hawkers.
  如有需要，警署内会设立小贩处理中心，方便办理检控被捕小贩的手续。
• The station's buffet: People were in a hurry to get on the train, and hawkers hawked as hard as they could, pushing the "buffet car" back and forth to catch passengers who needed some food or drink.
  《站内的小卖摊》上车的人匆匆忙忙，小贩也在使劲地吆喝着，推着车来回地搜寻着有需要的乘客。
• During the Shanghai Expo, hawkers have been forced out of public areas and into covered markets.
  在上海世博会期间，小贩被要求禁止在露天售卖，而在封闭的集贸市场里贩卖商品。
• 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。
• Hawkers plied up and down the platform.
  霍克斯不停地在站台上来回踱步。