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

• When night falls, the whole city, which was quiet during the daytime, suddenly turns into a bustling one with food stalls and hawkers selling all kinds of foods.
  夜幕降临后，原本很安静的城市马上变成了另一番景象，食品摊上的叫卖声、吆喝声此起彼伏，小贩们正忙着出售各种食物。
• 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。
• Hawkers plied up and down the platform.
  霍克斯不停地在站台上来回踱步。
• 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。
• 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。
• Do not patronize illegal food hawkers;
  不要光顾无牌食物档；
• 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。
• But queues of citizens will still be trundled in, as at Jiuzhaigou, to tread the boardwalks and purchase tchotchkes from costumed hawkers at the end of the bus route.
  但是，象在九寨沟一样，成群结队的市民仍然会涌进景区，踩着木板栈道，在巴士路线的终点盛装的小贩那里买上廉价艳丽的小饰物。
• 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。