cold calls

基本解释

I am in Sales and I make a lot of cold calls and walk into new businesses everyday to introduce Direct Marketing products.
我是做销售的，每天都会打很多陌生电话和拜访客户来推销公司的产品，我通过每天去拜访新客户让我养成了远离我的舒适区域的习惯。
program to help sales people accelerate their business, we decided to use cold calls for practicing new ways of communicating with potential clients.
这一套方法来帮助销售从业者加速做成生意时，我们决定通过打冷电话（Cold call）来练习运用新的沟通方式，接触潜在顾客。
His grandfather, outwardly easygoing, was frustrated with a luckless career as an insurance salesman: the young Obama would hear him making cold calls that hit a dead end.
他的外公，一个外表很随和的人，人生受挫于他那倒霉的保险推销员生涯：幼年的Obama 总会听到他打一些推销电话，之后又总是不了了之。而他的母亲也不在身边。

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If someone makes a cold call, they telephone or visit someone they have never contacted, without making an appointment, in order to try and sell something.
To cold-call means to make a cold call.
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