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

• We're going to sell up and retire to the west country at the end of the year.
  我们准备变卖家产，年底回到英格兰西南部。
• 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。
• 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。
• Before twitter began buttoning everything down, the rule was that employees hired between 2009 and 2011 could sell up to 20% of their options grant.
  Twitter在锁定股权结构前规定，2009-2011年入职的员工最多可以转让20%的股票期权。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 short, India has encouraged lots of firms to enter the voice market and then ensured that many of them cannot offer the latest technology. At the same time, it makes it hard for the losers to sell up and get out.
  总之，印度先是鼓励众多公司进入音频业务市场，然后又确保其中许多公司不能提供最新技术，同时又让那些失败企业很难卖掉资产，净身出户。
• 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。
• She will feel having to sell up her old home.
  卖掉她的旧住宅，这会使她难过的。