sales

英[seɪlz]美[seɪlz]

adj.销售的，推销的；

n.销售（额），卖( sale的名词复数 )，销售额，销路，贱卖；

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Our sales technique needs polishing up.我们的销售技术需要提高。

He got fed up of living out of a suitcase and left his job as a sales rep.他厌倦了靠着衣箱过日子，辞掉了销售代表的工作。

an aggressive sales pitch from the company rep公司销售代表一番咄咄逼人的推销

She was supposed to be speaking about sales figures, but she kept wandering off the subject.她本该谈论销售数字，但她老是跑题。

He confidently forecast a big increase in sales,and he turned out to be right.他自信地预测销售量将会大幅度提高,事实证明他是对的。

The housing sales have been turning down since the summer.入夏以来, 房屋的销售量日趋减少。

The writer's personal appearance picked up the sales of the book considerably.那位作家亲自到场, 使那本书的销售量大增。

The factory has laid off workers because of the drop in sales.那个工厂由于销量下降而暂时解雇了工人。

Sales have been dropping off badly.销售额大大下降。

The general manager has planned a reorganization of the sales department.总经理已经计划改组销售部。

英语四级真题

E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.

E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8 percent.

The increase of e-book sales will force the book business to make changes not seen for centuries.

Display and sales restrictions: California has a rule prohibiting alcohol displays near the cash registers in gas stations, and in most places you can't buy alcohol at drive-through facilities.

Sales in 2009 could be barely half of that

Well, at 3:30, you're seeing our sales representative there and then you're free till the evening.

The company's sales representative

That's because we have a wonderful sales manager ——you!

Sales assistants promoting high margin goods

Sales assistants following customers around.

The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records

Sales of these foods have greatly increased in recent years

Well, I'd like the position of sales manager if that position is still vacant.

As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company's district managers.

The district manager is the key to the success of the sales representatives in his district

Most have worked their way up from sales representatives, and they are very proud of the role they played in the company's growth.

The initiative shown by the sales representatives

A preliminary review of Mexico's taxation found a fall in purchases of taxed drinks as well as a rise in sales of untaxed and healthier drinks.

According to the firm's vice-president of Marketing and Sales, "We benefited from low expectations."

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

Furthermore, the future of the market looks far from rosy, with sales expected to fall further to £1.11 billion in 2016.

Hello, is that the Sales Department?

However, Dr Mehmood Khan,chief scientific officer, said the company had doubled research and development spending in the past five years and was "committed to sustaining investment", adding that companies cannot cost-cut their way to increasing sales.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

McGraw Hill, which controls 21% of the higher education market, reported in March that its digital content sales exceeded print sales for the first time in 2015.

Sales have doubled from $5 million in 2014 to $10 million in 2015, with 25 new branches planned for 2016.

Sales people often fall into this category.

She recently designed a gamification strategy for a sales training company with a storm-chasing theme.

This is after the country's main manufacturer stopped sales due to a potato shortage.

This is pushing sales of new microwaves which are expected to reach 135 million annually in the EU by the end of the decade.

Thus, rising microwave sales could be seen as a positive thing.

英语六级真题

Of the produce that does appear in the supermarket, commonly used sales promotions frequently encourage customers to purchase excessive quantities which, in the case of perishable foodstuffs, inevitably generate wastage in the home.

Such was the case in the early 1990s when Sears imposed a sales quota on its auto repair staff.

They were obliged to work more hours to increase their sales

They resorted to unethical practice to meet their sales quota.

Why did you sales people accept them?

Well, I'd like the position of sales manager if that position is still vacant.

It runs sales promotion campaigns

"About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls (短缺) in cold-weather goods," said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.

According to the International Business times, electric car sales are expected to increase as Volkswagen is still recovering from its emissions scandal.

An analysis of car sales in Germany found that cars with gills that were upturned like smiles sold best.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

If you're able to come this afternoon, you can give your name to the sales manager and they will be able to assist you.

In 2007, Nokia accounted for more than 40% of mobile phone sales worldwide.

It is certain that the Census procedures, which lump the online sales of major traditional retailers like Walmart with "'non-store retailers" like food trucks, can mask major changes in individual retail categories.

It seems likely that Census simply misclassifies a large chunk of online sales.

It's become so iconic that attempts to change its taste in 1985—sweetening it in a move projected to boost sales—proved disastrous, with widespread anger from consumers.

Macy's reported its sales plunged 5.2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wide—ranging challenges.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up" double-digit" increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

Sales of Barbie dolls have been falling every year since 2012, according to CBC news.

Sales of grass-fed yogurt and kefir(发酵乳饮品) on the other hand, have in the last year increased by over 38%.

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord&Taylor.

The dot.com bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.

The sudden decline in foot traffic in recent years, even though it hasn't been accompanied by a massive decline in physical sales, is a critical warning.

Their data show that only 0.8 percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016.

While Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record spending online, in-store sales plunged over the holiday weekend.

with more than $12 billion in sales this year, the industry is booming and, according to the market research company, Grand view Research, is on track to sell billions more by 2025.

Yet Walmart's year-over-year online sales only grew 7 percent, leading its CEO to lament, "Growth here is too slow."

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-SING

卖;销售

The sale of goods is the act of selling them for money.

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N-PLURAL

销售额;销售量

The sales of a product are the quantity of it that is sold.

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N-PLURAL

(公司产品的)销售工作

The part of a company that deals with sales deals with selling the company's products.

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N-COUNT

减价出售;大减价;贱卖

A sale is an occasion when a shop sells things at less than their normal price.

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N-COUNT

拍卖;拍卖会

A sale is an event when goods are sold to the person who offers the highest price.

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PHRASE

供出售;待售

If something is for sale, it is being offered to people to buy.

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PHRASE

出售;上市

Products that are on sale can be bought in shops.

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PHRASE

折价销售;减价出售

If products in a shop are on sale, they can be bought for less than their normal price.

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PHRASE

供出售;待售;转让

If a property or company is up for sale, its owner is trying to sell it.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

销售的, 推销的

n.

销售(额)

英英词典释义

Noun

1. income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time