mail-order

基本解释

A TAX dispute as old as mail-order catalogues turned into warfare this month.
一项跟邮购目录一样古老的税务纠纷在这个月开战了。
Restless, however, he returned to Minnesota and established a new mail-order firm selling watches and jewelry, with Roebuck as his partner.
然而，他并不满足，又回到明尼阿波利斯，与罗巴克合伙建立了一家新的邮购公司，出售手表和珠宝。
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.
当这个年轻人的生意越做越大，以致于无法再徒步沿街叫卖时，他购得当地牛奶卡车的递送服务，并且开始使用临时代用的邮购目录。

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.
月读书友会是一个创立于1926年的邮购书友会6,是图书销售的强大引擎，正如今天的奥普拉书友会一样。
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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.
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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.