喜樂美語
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    nB2

    /ˈkɑːmɜːrs/ · /ˈkɒmɜːs/

    The activity of buying and selling goods and services, especially thought about in general.

    商業 / 貿易

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Picture the whole flow of buying and selling in a country, seen from far enough away that you no longer notice any single shop or — ships loading, orders going out, money moving, goods arriving. Commerce can be thought of as trade viewed as one big activity rather than as any one deal you took part in. That is why it stays uncountable and turns up next to words like industry and trade.

可以想成一個國家買賣往來的整個流動，而且是從高處看下去、已經看不出哪一間店或哪一個客人的距離——船在裝貨、訂單一張張…更多收起可以想成一個國家買賣往來的整個流動，而且是從高處看下去、已經看不出哪一間店或哪一個客人的距離——船在裝貨、訂單一張張發出、錢在跑、貨陸續到。commerce 就像是把「買賣」當成一整件大事在看，而不是你自己談成的某一筆生意。也因為它是整片的，英文裡不加 a、也沒有複數，常跟 industry、trade 這些字並排出現。

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Commercename

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    A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

commercenoun/ˈkɒ.mɜːs/

  • 1

    businessThe exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

  • 2

    Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

    • [A]ll libertine diſcourſe, and familiarities vvith vvomen, […] nay even friendſhip it ſelfe […] muſt be vvatched vvith great prudence to be kept ſafe: for vvhich cauſe in ſtead of all theſe perillous commerces of our love, I vvill preferre ſo ſecure an object to it, […]
    • Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
  • 3

    obsoleteSexual intercourse.

    • carnal commerce
  • 4

    card-gamesgamesAn 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

commerceverb/ˈkɒ.mɜːs/

  • 1

    archaicTo carry on trade; to traffic.

    • [A]lwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts, […]
  • 2

    archaicTo hold conversation; to communicate.

    • No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]
    • Musicians […] taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。