mercantile
mercantile 英 [ˈmɜ:kəntaɪl] 美 [ˈmɜrkəntaɪl]
adj. 商业的；商人的；重商主义的 n. 商品
- What do merchants want to do? Buy and sell things to make a profit. The adjective mercantile describes these kinds of efforts and goals.
- 请先登录
- adj. 商业的；商人的；重商主义的
- n. 商品
-
1. At the Chicago mercantile Exchange?
在芝加哥商业交易所？
-
2. For all its overwhelming industrial and mercantile dominance, the United States remained a tenth-rate military power (except for its navy) until galvanized by Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
比如，由于拥有压倒性的工业与商业优势，直到日本袭击珍珠港之前，美国一直是个低等军事国家（海军除外）。
-
3. And suddenly, the classroom was like the floor of the Chicago mercantile Exchange, with everybody swapping corn-futures contracts in a trading frenzy.
突然间，教师就好像美国芝加哥商业交易所的楼层每个人都在交易潮中交换玉米的期货交易合同。
- mercantile (adj.) 1640s, from French mercantile (17c.), from Italian mercantile, from Medieval Latin mercantile, from Latin mercantem (nominative mercans) "a merchant," also "trading," present participle of mercari "to trade," from merx (see market (n.)). Mercantile system first appears in Adam Smith (1776).
- 请先登录
0 个回复