喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a two-way swap: I hand you something, you hand me something back. That single exchange is the seed of the whole word. Scale it up to goods flowing between people and countries and you get 'commerce'; settle into one kind of swapping and it becomes your 'line of business' or hands-on 'craft'.

可以想成一筆雙向的交換：我給你一樣東西，你回給我一樣東西。整個字都從這「一手交、一手收」長出來。把它放大成貨物在人與…更多收起可以想成一筆雙向的交換：我給你一樣東西，你回給我一樣東西。整個字都從這「一手交、一手收」長出來。把它放大成貨物在人與國之間來來去去，就成了「貿易、商業」；固定只換某一類東西，就變成你的「行業」或靠雙手吃飯的「手藝」。

原始詞典資料27 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。

tradenoun/tɹeɪd/

  • 1

    The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.

  • 2

    A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.

    • I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
  • 3

    An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.

    • "Sell America" is the latest trade on Wall Street.
  • 4

    An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.

    • EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
    • When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
  • 5

    Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.

    • The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
    • But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
  • 6

    Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.

    • It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.
  • 7

    The skilled practice of a practical occupation.

    • He learned his trade as an apprentice.
    • In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
  • 8

    An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.

    • After failing his entrance exams, he decided to go into a trade.
    • Most veterans went into trade when the war ended.
另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.

    • Even before noon there was considerable trade.
    • Trade has been down in this cold weather.
  • 10

    Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.

    • They rode the trades going west.
    • Calms and variable winds, are also experienced during every month of the year, in the space between the trades;[…] the vicinity of the north-east trade seems most liable to them.
  • 11

    A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.

    • Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades.
  • 12

    slangLGBTA masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)

    • Not you tryna impress twink trade.
    • Josh picked up some trade last night.
  • 13

    obsoleteInstruments of any occupation.

    • His House and household Gods! his trade of War, / His Bow and Quiver; and his trusty Cur.
  • 14

    businessminingRefuse or rubbish from a mine.

  • 15

    obsoleteA track or trail; a way; a path; passage.

    • A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house
    • As Shepheardes curre, that in darke eveninges shade / Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade
  • 16

    obsoleteA course; a custom; a practice; an occupation.

    • The Jewes, emong whom alone and no moe, God hitherto semed for to reigne, by reason of their knowledge of the law, and of the autoritee of being in the right trade of religion.
    • There those five sisters had continual trade / And used to bathe themselves in that deceitful shade.

tradeverb/tɹeɪd/

  • 1

    To engage in trade.

    • This company trades (in) precious metal.
    • He withdrew money to his bank account after several years of trading stocks on E-Trade.
  • 2

    businessfinanceTo be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.

    • Apple is trading at $200.
    • ExxonMobil trades on the NYSE.
  • 3

    To give (something) in exchange (for).

    • Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
  • 4

    To mutually exchange (something) (with).

    • The rival schoolboys traded insults and punches.
    • The [Halo effect] strikes our combined fleets. All ships piloted by biologicals are now [adrift]. I can trade Mendicant ship for ship now and still prevail.
  • 5

    To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.

    • Some musicians try to trade on their past success by playing the same hits over and over again.
  • 6

    agriculturebusinesshorticultureTo give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.

  • 7

    To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

  • 8

    To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

    • Saucy and over bold, how did you dare / To trade and traffic with Macbeth
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To recommend and get recommendations.

tradeadj/tɹeɪd/

  • 1

    Of a product, produced for sale in the ordinary bulk retail trade and hence of only the most basic quality.

    • "It is monstrous - grotesque." "But what made him draw such an animal?" "Trade gin, I should think."

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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。