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2011.09.14 (Review of 2009.04.01 edition)
If you've ever made pancakes (hotcakes) for a tableful of hungry bodies, then you know it isn't easy to keep up with demand. Doesn't every businessperson dream 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、つまり、売れ行きがよい、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、短期間で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 it in stock.
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