| 正面 | 4160.merchant 英 ['mɜːtʃ(ə)nt]美 ['mɝtʃənt]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： merchant 商业的，音：摸钱的n. 商人，批发商；店主adj. 商业的，商人的n. (Merchant)人名；(英)麦钱特 例句： 1. The ride was smooth until they got into the merchant ship's wake.航行一直很顺利，直到他们碰上了商船的尾流。 merchant 商人，店主，零售商来自法语mercheant,商人，来自拉丁语mercari,买卖，交易，词源同market. merchantmerchant: [13] Latin merx denoted ‘goods for sale’. From it was derived the verb mercārī ‘trade’ (whose past participle was the source of English market). Mercārī was adapted in Vulgar Latin to mercātāre, whose present participle mercātāns produced the Old French noun marcheant ‘trader’, source of English merchant. Merchandise [13] comes from a derivative of marcheant; and other English descendants of Latin merx are commerce and mercury.=> commerce, market, mercurymerchant (n.)c. 1200, from Anglo-French marchaunt "merchant, shopkeeper" (Old French marcheant, Modern French marchand), from Vulgar Latin *mercatantem (nominative *mercatans) "a buyer," present participle of *mercatare, frequentative of Latin mercari "to trade, traffic, deal in" (see market). Meaning "fellow, chap" is from 1540s; with a specific qualifier, and suggesting someone who deals in it (such as speed merchant "one who enjoys fast driving"), from 1914.merchant (adj.)c. 1400, from merchant (n.) and from Old French marcheant (adj.)." |