N-COUNT (采用欺骗或强行手段推销无用物品的)推销员,商贩 If you refer to someone as a huckster, you are criticizing them for trying to sell useless or worthless things in a dishonest or aggressive way.
A huckster offered to sell Carnegie the formula for guaranteed success for $20,000. 一名骗子推销员提出以两万美元的价格卖给卡内基一张保证成功的秘方。
To Victorian society, immigrant street peddlers were hucksters, a name that retains a whiff of moral judgment to this day. 对于维多利亚社会而言,这些身为街头小贩的外来人口被看做是叫卖小贩,直到现在,这一词汇还是带有一点道德评判的意味。
The hucksters cried above the traffic sounds. 小贩的吆喝盖住了来往车辆的喧嚣。
I am not a hardworking man, I often get up later, so I have no breathed air of morning, no heared the songs of birds, no saw the view of hucksters shouting! 我不是一个爱起早的人,通常都起的很晚,所以我从来没有吸过早晨的清新空气,从没听过早上的鸟儿的歌唱,从没看到过小贩们的叫卖的场景。
To make a loud, sustained noise or outcry. The hucksters cried above the traffic sounds. 喧闹,叫嚣发出大的、持久的噪音或喊声小贩的吆喝盖住了来往车辆的喧嚣。