英语词汇“a drug on the market”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

3. A commodity which is no longer in demand, and so has lost its commercial value or has become unsaleable. Also in extended use. Now only in phrase a drug on (also in) the market.

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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > surplus or excess goods > esp. no longer in demand

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1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. xlii. 215 Another commoditie Minerall, namely Copperas,..hath beene so ill gouerned by worke-men vnderselling one another,..and is become a meere drug out of request, by the abundance made and indiscreetly vented, bartered or exchanged.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 54 [He] made such a vent for Welsh Cottons, that what he found Drugs at home, he left Dainties beyond Sea.

1671 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 151 We might send our English Cloth, which now is grown a Drug.

1680 W. Temple Ess. Advancem. Trade Ireland in Wks. (1731) I. 116 Horses in Ireland are a Drug, but might be improved to a Commodity.

1704 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 278 Wheat..bears no price, and bread and flour is a very drug.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 66 I smil'd to my self at the Sight of this Money, O Drug! Said I aloud, what art thou good for.

1760 A. Murphy Way to keep Him i. 5 A Wife's a Drug now; mere Tar-Water, with every Virtue under Heaven, but nobody takes it.

1804 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 341 It was in vain that I urged the state of the corn trade during former wars, particularly during the American contest, when com was literally a drug in the market.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 211 They told me poetry was a mere drug; every body wrote poetry.

1833 Knickerbacker Mar. 157 Lace veils are a drug in the market.

1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i. 10 Well, they wouldn't confiscate his pictures, for they wouldn't know their worth. But what would they be worth, if these maniacs once began to milk capital? A drug on the market.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 187 Genius would be a drug in the market.

1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge iv. 125 He can't bear his feeling of being a drug on the market.

1971 P. Berton Last Spike ii. ii. 67 One carpenter..realized that his fellow artisans, arriving by the score, would make his services a drug on the market.

2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 16 June (A2 section) 12 Both artists are a bit of a drug on the market in American and European collections but in the context of this exhibition they recover their voices and reassert their significance.

单词	a drug on the market
释义	> as lemmas a drug on (also in) the market 3. A commodity which is no longer in demand, and so has lost its commercial value or has become unsaleable. Also in extended use. Now only in phrase a drug on (also in) the market. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > surplus or excess goods > esp. no longer in demand drug1622 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. xlii. 215 Another commoditie Minerall, namely Copperas,..hath beene so ill gouerned by worke-men vnderselling one another,..and is become a meere drug out of request, by the abundance made and indiscreetly vented, bartered or exchanged. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 54 [He] made such a vent for Welsh Cottons, that what he found Drugs at home, he left Dainties beyond Sea. 1671 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 151 We might send our English Cloth, which now is grown a Drug. 1680 W. Temple Ess. Advancem. Trade Ireland in Wks. (1731) I. 116 Horses in Ireland are a Drug, but might be improved to a Commodity. 1704 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 278 Wheat..bears no price, and bread and flour is a very drug. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 66 I smil'd to my self at the Sight of this Money, O Drug! Said I aloud, what art thou good for. 1760 A. Murphy Way to keep Him i. 5 A Wife's a Drug now; mere Tar-Water, with every Virtue under Heaven, but nobody takes it. 1804 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 341 It was in vain that I urged the state of the corn trade during former wars, particularly during the American contest, when com was literally a drug in the market. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 211 They told me poetry was a mere drug; every body wrote poetry. 1833 Knickerbacker Mar. 157 Lace veils are a drug in the market. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i. 10 Well, they wouldn't confiscate his pictures, for they wouldn't know their worth. But what would they be worth, if these maniacs once began to milk capital? A drug on the market. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 187 Genius would be a drug in the market. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge iv. 125 He can't bear his feeling of being a drug on the market. 1971 P. Berton Last Spike ii. ii. 67 One carpenter..realized that his fellow artisans, arriving by the score, would make his services a drug on the market. 2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 16 June (A2 section) 12 Both artists are a bit of a drug on the market in American and European collections but in the context of this exhibition they recover their voices and reassert their significance. extracted from drugn.¹ < as lemmas
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