Merchant
['mɜːtʃ(ə)nt] or ['mɝtʃənt]
解釋/意思:
(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.
校對:潘西
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Trader (particularly a wholesale trader), tradesman.
德洛丽丝整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Trader, dealer, importer, tradesman, trafficker
ANT:Shopman, salesman, hawker, huckster, pedler, chandler, costermonger
昌西整理
解釋/意思:
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.
校對:卢瑟
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
校對:罗伯特
例句/造句/用法:
- The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The capital of a merchant, for example, is altogether a circulating capital. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He wants me to be an India merchant, as he was, and I'd rather be shot. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He is a corn merchant this year, and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- To these communications Peggotty replied as promptly, if not as concisely, as a merchant's clerk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- These people and their like gave the pompous Russell Square merchant pompous dinners back again. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Henry Clerval was the son of a merchant of Geneva, an intimate friend of my father. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- At this minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The Babylonians were a nation of agriculturists and merchants. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Those merchants and manufacturers enjoy a sort of monopoly in the country which is so indulgent to them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Let other nations be merchants and warriors, while Greece reasserts her ancient vocation of teacher. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The rich men of the world before this time had been great landowners or money-lenders and money manipulators or merchants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Let the merchants on both sides treat with one another. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The merchants closed their shops, and came out to swell the general chorus of alarm and clamour. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, whose trade depended on exports and interchange of wealth, became bankrupt. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
手打:洛伊斯