背著貨到處走的人
這就是核心畫面本身，字面的那一種。
noun · B2
Someone who travels around selling small, cheap goods, carrying them or pushing a cart instead of working from a shop. Peddler is the American spelling; British writing usually has pedlar.
小販、行商
核心畫面
Picture a person with the whole shop on their back: an open box on a strap, or a small cart. Nothing waits on a shelf for customers to come. The seller walks, stops in front of someone, opens the box, and moves on.
可以想成一個人把整間店背在身上：一個掛著背帶、可以打開的木盒，或是一台小推車。東西不會放在架上等客人上門。賣的人自己…更多收起
可以想成一個人把整間店背在身上：一個掛著背帶、可以打開的木盒，或是一台小推車。東西不會放在架上等客人上門。賣的人自己走，走到人面前停下來，把盒子打開，然後再往前走。peddler 的每一個意思，都可以從這個「貨跟著人走、一個一個遞出去」的畫面長出來。From the word’s history
The source traces it to Middle English pedlere and peddere, a hawker, and then says the origin is uncertain. It also offers a possible link to a Latin word for foot, which would fit selling on foot, but that link is marked uncertain too.
來源把它追到中古英語的 pedlere、peddere（叫賣的人），再往前就標成不確定。來源另外提到一條可能跟拉丁文「腳」有關的線索——正好對得上「靠腳走著賣」——但那條線索本身也被寫成不確定，所以只能當成一種說法。
Wiktionary, peddler, supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:728428701)
Two branches
把不該賣的東西一個一個遞出去
畫面沒變，只是盒子裡的東西換掉了：不再是梳子，而是不該賣、也不該傳的東西。因為交易是人對人、悄悄遞過去的，這個老字剛好貼得上。
noun · B2
Someone who sells illegal drugs. The source marks this use as old-fashioned, and today most writing uses dealer instead.
毒販
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
peddlernoun/ˈpɛdlə/
- 1
An itinerant seller of small goods.
- 2
A drug dealer.
- Here's a cure for all your troubles Here's an end to all distress It's the old dope peddler With his powdered happiness
- 3
A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。