核心畫面

One way to hold this word: it moves the whole sentence onto the buying-and-selling side of life. Picture a thing being made not for the person who makes it, but for a stranger who will pay for it. Follow that thing along: first it is grown, caught or built in quantity because it is meant to be sold; then it reaches a shelf, where anyone can buy it; and at the end someone counts the money and asks whether it paid. Each step is one of the word's uses.

可以想成一個問題:這件事是為了賣嗎?commercially 的工作就是把整句話搬到買賣這一邊。先想像一樣東西做出來更多收起可以想成一個問題:這件事是為了賣嗎?commercially 的工作就是把整句話搬到買賣這一邊。先想像一樣東西做出來,不是給自己用,而是給一個會付錢的陌生人。接著跟著它走。第一步,它被大量種、養、捕或做出來,因為本來就是要賣的。第二步,它上了架,一般人買得到了。最後有人把帳算一算,問它到底有沒有賺。這三步,正好就是這個字的三個用法。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records commercially as commercial plus -ly, with commercial borrowed from French. Commercial means to do with trade, and -ly turns it into a word about the way or the angle, so the whole word points at the trade side of whatever is being discussed.

Wiktionary 記錄 commercially 由 commercial 加 -ly 組成,而 commercial 借自法文。commercial 的意思是「跟買賣有關的」,-ly 則把它變成講方式和角度的副詞。所以整個字可以想成:把話題轉到買賣那一邊。

Wiktionary entry for commercially, etymology tree: French commercial (borrowed) > English commercial + -ly (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1140080996)

From the picture

回頭算帳

東西賣出去之後,總得有人把帳算一算。同樣站在買賣這一邊,但角度從「做來賣」換成「賣得動嗎、賺錢嗎」,於是這個字就變成一個評語。

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In terms of money and business — used to say whether something sells well or makes a profit, as opposed to whether it is good, useful or well made.

在商業上;賺不賺錢

Also in this word

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Grown, made, caught or used in large amounts as a business, so that the goods can be sold, rather than for your own use.

商業性地(做來賣的)

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On sale in shops for anyone to buy — used mostly in the phrase commercially available, about a product that has reached the market.

已上市;買得到