| 词汇 | trade on/upon something |
| 释义 | trade on/upon somethingtrade on/upon something phrasal verbphr v USE A PERSONto use a situation or someone’s kindness in order to get an advantage for yourself 利用〔某一形势或某人的善良〕 If you ask me, they’re just trading on Sam’s good nature. 要我说的话，他们只不过是在利用萨姆的善良。 Examples from the Corpus trade on/upon • All are being prosecuted for trading on a Sunday.• He has never found it hard to practice his goalscoring trade on his travels here, there and everywhere.• The delusion was welcome, and I traded on it consciously and preposterously.• No surprises there, as Stubbly never bothered usually with the floating drinking trade on Saturday afternoons.• Instead there operates a rebuttable presumption that the defendant did base his trades on the information in his possession.• Shares in Popular led gainers midway through trading on the Madrid Stock Exchange.• In late morning trading on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average fell sharply, down 115.09 at 10,380.19.• Even small-time investors can place their money in venture capital funds traded on Wall Street. → trade on/upon something at trade2(PHRASAL VERB) |
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