单词 | under the counter |
释义 | under the counterunder the counter SECRETif you buy something under the counter, you buy it secretly and usually illegally 〔购物〕秘密地,暗地里〔通常违法〕 It’s risky, but you can get alcohol under the counter. 虽然有些冒险,但你可以通过秘密渠道买酒。 Examples from the Corpus under the counter• There's pots to wash and a broom under the counter.• Yet we all know that it goes on - under the counter, as it were.• That box of spark plugs under the counter is a cache.• This time you bring back a whole box of plugs to put under the counter.• Then he reached under the counter for his slim green ledgers.• And they sell under the counter, you know.• Without waiting to lift the flap she slipped under the counter. → under the counter at counter1(2) |
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