Trade
[treɪd] or [tred]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the skilled practice of a practical occupation; 'he learned his trade as an apprentice'.
(noun.) the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services; 'Venice was an important center of trade with the East'; 'they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade'.
(noun.) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; 'even before noon there was a considerable patronage'.
(verb.) exchange or give (something) in exchange for.
(verb.) turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase; 'trade in an old car for a new one'.
(verb.) engage in the trade of; 'he is merchandising telephone sets'.
(verb.) be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions; 'The stock traded around $20 a share'.
整理:佩吉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
(v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
(v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
(v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
(v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
(v.) Instruments of any occupation.
(v.) A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
(v.) The trade winds.
(v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
(v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
(v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
(v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
(v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
(-) imp. of Tread.
整理:奥蒂斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Traffic, commerce, barter, dealing, business, purchase and sale, buying and selling, exchange of commodities.[2]. Occupation (especially a mechanical one), employment, business, calling, pursuit, vocation, craft.
v. n. Traffic, deal, bargain, chaffer, carry on commerce, buy and sell, drive a trade, drive a bargain.
v. a. Exchange, barter, swap.
布赖斯手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Traffic, commerce, dealing, exchange, {buying_and_selling}, employment,occupation,[See VESTIGE]
校對:马奇
解釋/意思:
n. (Spens.) same as Tread: (Shak.) beaten path.
n. buying and selling: commerce: occupation craft; men engaged in the same occupation: rubbish.—v.i. to buy and sell: to act merely for money.—v.i. to traffic with.—adjs. Trād′ed (Shak.) versed practised; Trade′ful (Spens.) commercial busy in traffic.—ns. Trade′-hall a hall for the meetings of any trade or guild; Trade′-mark any name or distinctive device warranting goods for sale as the production of any individual or firm; Trade′-price the price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade or are sold by wholesale to retail dealers; Trā′der; Trade′-sale an auction sale of goods by producers &c. to persons in the trade.—n.pl. Trades′-folk people employed in trade.—n. Trades′man a common name for a shopkeeper: a mechanic:—fem. Trades′woman.—n.pl. Trades′peo′ple people employed in various trades esp. shopkeeping &c.—ns. Trades′-un′ion Trade′-un′ion an organised association of the workmen of any trade or industry for the protection of their common interests; Trade′-un′ionism; Trade′-un′ionist; Trade′-wind a wind blowing steadily toward the thermal equator and deflected westwardly by the eastward rotation of the earth.—adj. Trā′ding carrying on commerce (also n.): (Milt.) frequented by traders denoting places where the trade-winds blow.—Trade on to take advantage of.—Board of Trade a department of government for control of railways mercantile marine harbours and commercial matters generally.
手打:旺达
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of trading, denotes fair success in your enterprise. If you fail, trouble and annoyances will overtake you.
安尼塔整理
例句/造句/用法:
- The Chinese have little respect for foreign trade. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Fish is one of the principal articles with which the North Americans trade to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Thirdly, and lastly, the machines and instruments of trade, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He chose the trade of a lapidary, or polisher of precious stones, an art which in that age was held in almost as high esteem as that of the painter or sculptor. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He has occasion for no machines or instruments of trade, unless his shop or warehouse be considered as such. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Part of what had before been employed in other trades, is necessarily withdrawn from them, and turned into some of the new and more profitable ones. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If it affords at any time much less than this, other trades will soon draw so much capital from it as will again raise that profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Does she stand better with her trades-people than I do with mine? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world, said he; many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- They were prepared to tolerate his rule if they themselves might also be monarchs of their lands and businesses and trades and what not. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Two trades of the utmost brilliance. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In the greatest part of mechanic trades success is almost certain; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The fellow that was trading for her didn't want her baby; and she was one of your real high sort, when her blood was up. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company, has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He relates, that a New-England sloop, trading there in 1752, left their second mate, William Murray, sick on shore, and sailed without him. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But trading them from Kentucky,--that's quite another thing! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A merchant, without over-trading, may frequently have occasion for a sum of ready money, even when he has no bills to discount. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This was a party of Arabs, who came by sea to Canton in a trading vessel from Yanbu, the port of Medina in Arabia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- From what we know of mankind, we are bound to conclude that the first sailors plundered when they could, and traded when they had to. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Salt also was probably being traded. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My master traded with one of the men, and bought my oldest sister. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Every store I traded with was always glad to furnish goods, perhaps in amazed admiration of my system of doing business, which was certainly new. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The English laborer is not sold, traded, parted from his family, whipped. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I had a brother-in-law, Robert Holmes, master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
整理:露丝