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tout

/tout/US // taʊt //UK // (taʊt) //

兜售,兜兜转转,兜底,兜揽

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to solicit business, employment, votes, or the like, importunately.
    • : Horse Racing. to act as a tout.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to solicit support for importunately.
    • : to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly: a highly touted nightclub.
    • : Horse Racing. to provide information on running in a particular race, especially for a fee.to spy on in order to gain information for the purpose of betting.
    • : to watch; spy on.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who solicits business, employment, support, or the like, importunately.
    • : Horse Racing. a person who gives information on a horse, especially for a fee.Chiefly British.a person who spies on a horse in training for the purpose of betting.
    • : British. a ticket scalper.

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Examples

  • Two years earlier, the commission settled civil fraud charges against an even younger Internet tout.

  • One is the “economic decoupling” many tout as the way to end any dependency on China and weaken its economy.

  • The audience--tout Hollywood--stands to cheer his slow and painful trek from the wings to the table.

  • A liberal group supporting Hillary Clinton tries to tout her pro-middle class bonafides.

  • But every few years a news article will tout the increased popularity of rabbit as an American dinner item.

  • Le tout Minsk turns out in protest, catching the authorities by surprise.

  • That big brain we so tout today was shaped by the mammoths we hunted, by the great cats and bears that sometimes stalked us.

  • Ils me respondirent que si je la voulois, ils me la donnoyent tout faict.

  • Ils me donnerent parolle d'ainsy faire le tout; ce neantmoins, le languissant ne nous fut apport que deux jours aprs.

  • Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.

  • Celuy-cy avoit souvent esvad le danger d'estre noy, et tout fraischement le beau jour de la Pentecoste dernire.

  • Le lendemain matin, un coup de vent l'emporta tout seul dehors de la chaloupe dans les vagues, et jamais depuis, n'est apparu.