sell up

英 [sel ʌp]

美 [sel ʌp]

卖光（财物）; 变卖（家当）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 卖光(财物);变卖(家当)
  If yousell up, you sell everything you have, such as your house or your business, because you need the money.
  1. ...all these farmers going out of business and having to sell up...
     所有这些破产而不得不变卖家当的农场主
  2. He advised Evans to sell up his flat and move away to the country.
     他建议埃文斯卖掉公寓搬到乡下去住。

in AM, use 美国英语用 sell out

英英释义

verb

• get rid of all one's merchandise
  Synonym:sell outliquidize

双语例句

• The manager of the Mei Dan beauty parlour says Canada is the new dream, while the Golden Home property agency reports falling prices as immigrants sell up and leave.
  MeiDan美容院的经理表示，现在加拿大是人们新的梦想之地。与此同时，房地产中介公司GoldenHome的报告称，由于外来移民纷纷售出房产离开这里，房价正在不断下跌。
• Its approval should make it easier for the government to compel landowners to sell up, allowing it to build much-needed highways across the main islands of Java and Sumatra, among other projects.
  该法案的通过将使得政府能更容易的促使土地所有者卖掉土地，进而能够在其他项目中，修建贯通爪哇岛、苏门答腊岛间急需的高速公路。
• I shall have to sell up to pay all my debts.
  我将不得不卖掉我的东西来还债。
• The new supermarket has been so successful that some small shopkeepers have had to sell up.
  那家超级市场营业非常成功，使得某些小店不得不出盘歇业。
• 10. Today a busy aquarium store may sell up to$ 20,000 worth of fish in a good year.
  10、如今，一所兴旺的水族商店在好年份一年可以销掉价值两万美元的观赏鱼。
• Not like that jumped-on powder they sell up in nuyorico.
  不是波多黎各佬卖的假货。
• Other rich entrepreneurs sell up and simply use their wealth for dedicated good causes.
  还有一些富有企业家出售企业并将自己的财富投入崇高事业。
• But unless basic services are radically improved, the danger is that peasants will sell up and become landless.
  但是，除非基本服务得到根本改善，否则危险将是农民出售土地使用权，变得无地可耕。
• Even if the worst comes to the worst, we can always sell up our business here and start again somewhere else.
  即使出现最坏的情况，我们也总可以随时在这里变卖商店，然后在其他地方另起炉灶。
• After Massachusetts, a semester in Ohio; and a return to Washington only to sell up, take a last swim, and drive north, in the early September swelter, in our lumbering U-Haul.
  继马萨诸塞之后，我们在俄亥俄州住了一学期；然后回到华盛顿，只是为了卖掉房产，游了最后一次泳，而后，在闷热的九月上旬，开着从搬家公司U-Haul租来的笨拙卡车北上。