汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 投機倒把
投機倒把 (投机倒把)
speculation and profiteering (idiom); buying and selling on speculation
Take advantage of the opportunity to disrupt the market and make huge profits by hoarding, short selling, adulteration, and price manipulation
谓以囤积居奇﹑买空卖空﹑搀杂作假﹑操纵物价等手段攫取暴利。
tóu () jī dào/dǎo bǎ/bà
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

有的只是跟风、耍流氓、投机倒把

Some just follows suit, behave like a hooligan, play the market.

国内的大多都是投机倒把

Most of ones domestic engage in speculation.

曾有一股投机倒把和腐败之风。

There's been a wave of profiteering and corruption.

他跟投机倒把分子有瓜葛。

He's got mixed up with speculators.

盗运珍贵文物出口或者进行文物投机倒把活动情节严重的;

serious cases of smuggling valuable cultural relics out of thecountry or speculating in cultural relics;

正如艾伯特·丁尼生所说的,投机倒把里出现了裂罅。

There was a rift within the loot , as Albert Tennyson says.

去年5月印花税的上调是为了缓和股民过于狂热的劲头,这种劲头让申银万国那样的证券公司变成投机倒把活动迅速膨胀的赌场。

A rise in the tax last May was intended to temper the animal spirits that were turning brokers like Shenyin & Wanguo into heaving gambling dens.

这让我回忆起20世纪70年代末和80年代初的一些情况。那时候,中国各地之间、城市之间的很多商品价格并不一致,所以出现了“倒爷”,这些人被批评为“二道贩子”,搞长途贩运,搞投机倒把,赚取差价。

This reminds me of China in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when prices differed in different cities, thus inducing profiteers, who transported goods over a long distance for speculative profits.