mail-order

基本解釋

A TAX dispute as old as mail-order catalogues turned into warfare this month.
一項(xiàng)跟郵購(gòu)目錄一樣古老的稅務(wù)糾紛在這個(gè)月開(kāi)戰(zhàn)了。
Restless, however, he returned to Minnesota and established a new mail-order firm selling watches and jewelry, with Roebuck as his partner.
然而，他并不滿足，又回到明尼阿波利斯，與羅巴克合伙建立了一家新的郵購(gòu)公司，出售手表和珠寶。
When the young man's business got too big for him to peddle on foot, he obtained the delivery services of the local milk truck and started a makeshift mail-order catalogue.
當(dāng)這個(gè)年輕人的生意越做越大，以致于無(wú)法再徒步沿街叫賣時(shí)，他購(gòu)得當(dāng)?shù)嘏Ｄ炭ㄜ嚨倪f送服務(wù)，并且開(kāi)始使用臨時(shí)代用的郵購(gòu)目錄。

One study of agencies that list women seeking husbands found there were around ten thousand "mail-order marriages" a year.
The Book of the Month Club was a mail-order book club that started in 1926 and it became an incredibly powerful engine for selling books, just as Oprah's Book Club is today.
月讀書友會(huì)是一個(gè)創(chuàng)立于1926年的郵購(gòu)書友會(huì)6,是圖書銷售的強(qiáng)大引擎，正如今天的奧普拉書友會(huì)一樣。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 1945年后的美國(guó)小說(shuō)課程節(jié)選
These days,women who advertise online for husbands are sometimes called "e-mail-order brides."

The likes of Yale, of course, are not about to start selling cheap mail-order degrees.
FORBES: Side Lines

Mail order is a system of buying and selling goods. You choose the goods you want from a company by looking at their catalogue, and the company sends them to you by mail.
Mail orders are goods that have been ordered by mail order.