under the counter
短语私下地 [经] 走后门
词形变化
more under the counter
比较级
most under the counter
最高级
别名
under-the-counter
释义与例句
adj.
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1.
In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.
私下的
爱尔兰 非正式
adv.
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1.
Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).
非法地
1969 The Seven Minutes: A Novel - Page 157 by Irving Wallace Oh, yeah, I remember, you mean about me not trying to sell from under the counter?
2004, James Carlos Blake, Under the Skin, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 55, When Prohibition became the law, they produced the stuff in greater quantity and sold it under the counter to anybody who wanted it.