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2009.04.01
Hello!
If you've ever made pancakes (hotcakes) for a tableful of hungry people, you know that it's not easy keeping up with the demand. And every businessperson dreams of finding a product that disappears just that quickly!
SELL (LIKE HOT CAKES) （飛ぶように）売れる
- Be Careful! In the following expressions, the product is the SUBJECT of the sentence (as in “The product sells.”) rather than the object (as in “They sell the product.”).
If a product sells at or for a particular price, it can be bought at that price.
If it sells in a particular quantity, that's how many are bought.
If it “doesn't sell,” only a small number are bought.
If it “sells well,” large numbers of the product are bought.
If it sells like hot cakes, large numbers of the product are bought quickly. - 注意：これから紹介する表現の中の product は、They sell the product. のように文の目的語ではなく、The product sells. のように文の主語として使われます。
a product sells at [for] a particular price は、商品がその価格で買える、という意味です。
a product sells in a particular quantity は、商品がその量だけ買われる、という意味です。
a product doesn't sell は、商品が少ししか買われない、という意味です。
a product sells well は、大量の商品が買われる、という意味です。
a product sells like hot cakes は、すぐに大量の商品が買われる、つまり、飛ぶように売れる、という意味です。
- It sells for $4.99 a bottle or $50 for a case of 12.
- The March issue of the magazine sold over 150,000 copies, its biggest month ever.
- We used to carry that brand, but it just didn't sell.
- Roses always sell well in any season.
- The new video game is selling like hot cakes. We're having trouble keeping them in stock.
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