commerce
英 ['kɒmɜːs]
美 ['kɑmɝs]
英文词源
- commerce
- commerce: [16] Commerce is etymologically related to market, merchandise, merchant, and mercury. It comes, perhaps via French commerce, from Latin commercium ‘trade’, a compound noun formed from the collective prefix com- ‘together’ and merx ‘merchandise’. The adjective commercial is 17th-century, its nominal use for ‘broadcast advertisement’ 20thcentury.
=> market, merchant, mercury - commerce (n.)
- 1530s, from Middle French commerce (14c.), from Latin commercium "trade, trafficking," from com- "together" (see com-) + merx (genitive mercis) "merchandise" (see market (n.)).
双语例句
- 1. There were notable jousts with the Secretary of Commerce.
- 和商业部长之间明显存在竞争。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. leaders of industry and commerce
- 工商界领导人
来自《权威词典》
- 3. During the war, they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.
- 在战争期间, 他们禁止与敌国通商.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The marketplace was where commerce was traditionally carried on.
- 这个集市是传统的贸易场所.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. Commerce binds the two countries together.
- 贸易把这两国结合在一起.
来自《简明英汉词典》