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

• She will feel having to sell up her old home.
  卖掉她的旧住宅，这会使她难过的。
• When a lock-up period on some of its holding expires on June 20, TPG will be able to sell up to 11 per cent of SDB's total shares for about$ 992m, based on SDB's latest share price.
  TPG所持部分股份的锁定期为今年6月20日，届时它最多可以售出深发展全部股份的11%，根据深发展最新股价，总价约为9.92亿美元。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。