Merchant
['mɜːtʃ(ə)nt] or ['mɝtʃənt]
解释:
(n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
(n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.
(n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
(v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.
校对:潘西
同义词及近义词：
n. Trader (particularly a wholesale trader), tradesman.
德洛丽丝整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Trader, dealer, importer, tradesman, trafficker
ANT:Shopman, salesman, hawker, huckster, pedler, chandler, costermonger
昌西整理
解释:
n. one who carries on trade esp. on a large scale: one who buys and sells goods: a trader: (obs.) a supercargo: a merchant-vessel.—adj. pertaining to trade or merchandise.—v.i. Merch′and (Bacon) to trade or traffic.—n. Mer′chandīse goods bought and sold for gain: (B. and Shak.) trade: dealing.—adjs. Mer′chantable suitable for sale: inferior to the very best but suitable for ordinary purposes; Mer′chant-like (Shak.) like a merchant.—ns. Mer′chantman a trading-ship: (B.) a merchant:—pl. Mer′chantmen; Mer′chantry the business of a merchant; merchants collectively.—Merchant prince one who has made a great fortune as a merchant; Merchant service the ships &c. engaged in commerce: the commerce which is carried on by sea; Merchant ship or vessel a ship used for carrying goods; Merchant tailor a tailor who supplies the cloth for the clothes which he makes.
校对:卢瑟
娱乐性解释：
n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
校对:罗伯特
例句:
- The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The capital of a merchant, for example, is altogether a circulating capital. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He wants me to be an India merchant, as he was, and I'd rather be shot. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- He is a corn merchant this year, and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- To these communications Peggotty replied as promptly, if not as concisely, as a merchant's clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- These people and their like gave the pompous Russell Square merchant pompous dinners back again. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The person to whom the world is chiefly indebted for the practical application of gas lighting is Mr. Winsor, who had been a merchant in London. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Henry Clerval was the son of a merchant of Geneva, an intimate friend of my father. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- At this minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The Babylonians were a nation of agriculturists and merchants. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Those merchants and manufacturers enjoy a sort of monopoly in the country which is so indulgent to them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Let other nations be merchants and warriors, while Greece reasserts her ancient vocation of teacher. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The rich men of the world before this time had been great landowners or money-lenders and money manipulators or merchants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The profits of it only are spent in Spain and Portugal, where they help to support the sumptuous profusion of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The greater part, both of the exportation and coasting trade of America, is carried on by the capitals of merchants who reside in Great Britain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Let the merchants on both sides treat with one another. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The merchants closed their shops, and came out to swell the general chorus of alarm and clamour. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, whose trade depended on exports and interchange of wealth, became bankrupt. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
手打:洛伊斯