Word · Frequency #23356
hawker
街头小贩;流动叫卖者
someone who travels about selling wares, especially on the streets or at carnivals
- 1.
A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
小贩,货郎,售卖易携带商品的人
- 2.
Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
饲养和训练鹰及其他隼的人;驯鹰者
- 3.
someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
流动小贩,沿街或集市售卖商品的人
- 4.
Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
蜓科蜻蜓;蜻蜓
- 5.
a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
饲养和训练鹰并从事猎鹰运动的人
小贩,货郎,售卖易携带商品的人;饲养和训练鹰及其他隼的人;驯鹰者;流动小贩,沿街或集市售卖商品的人;蜓科蜻蜓;蜻蜓;饲养和训练鹰并从事猎鹰运动的人
In use
The hawker sold fresh fruit from a cart on the busy street.
Every morning, hawkers set up their stalls near the train station.
We bought roasted chestnuts from a friendly hawker at the market.
a hawker of + [goods]
此结构强调所售卖的商品类别。
A hawker of fresh flowers walks through the restaurant every morning.
每天早晨,一名卖鲜花的小贩走过这家餐厅。
a hawker selling + [goods]
现在分词短语作后置定语,相当于“who sells”。
We bought fruit from a hawker selling mangoes.
我们从一名卖芒果的小贩那里买了水果。
hawker + at/in/on + [place]
介词 at 指具体地点,in 指较大区域,on 指在街道上。
Connections
Collocations
- street hawker
- 街头小贩
- A street hawker was selling roasted chestnuts on the corner.一个街头小贩在街角卖烤栗子。
- food hawker
- 食品摊贩;卖小吃的小贩
- The food hawker's noodle soup drew a long queue every lunchtime.这个食品摊贩的面汤每天午饭时间都引来长长的队伍。
- hawker stall
- 小贩摊位
- She bought a plate of fried rice from a hawker stall.她从一个小贩摊位买了一盘炒饭。
- hawker centre
- 小贩中心(新加坡等地常见的露天美食广场)
- We had satay and sugarcane juice at the hawker centre.我们去了小贩中心吃沙嗲和喝甘蔗汁。
- itinerant hawker
- 流动小贩
- An itinerant hawker moved from market to market selling fabrics.一个流动小贩从一个市场跑到另一个市场卖布料。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 hawker 想成“吼客”:街头小贩大声吆喝叫卖,声音像在“吼”顾客。记住 hawker 就是推车叫卖的小贩。
Context & Register
语域:neutral 常见场景:street、market、carnival hawker 这里指在街头、集市或节庆活动场所流动叫卖商品的小贩。这一用法通常呈中性,在书面和口语中都可能出现;日常口语里也常说 vendor 或 seller,具体选择要看语境。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 hawker 押韵(/ɔkɝ/):walker、talker、stalker,拼写均为 -alker(l 不发音)。注意拼写相似的 -oker 单词(choker、joker、poker)读作 /oʊkɝ/,不押韵。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.