| 词汇 | spiel |
| 词源 | spiel. This Americanism, for “sales talk or a line,” has been used at least since 1870. It derives from the German spielen, “to play a musical instrument.” In its American usage the word meant “to talk in a high-flown, grandiloquent manner” before it was used to describe the voluble talk of the carnival barker and then the salesman. |
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