| 单词 | trade |
| 释义 | trade I. 1. a. obsolete b. archaic < some savage beast's trade — Edmund Spenser > 2. a. b. < thy sin's not accidental, but a trade — Shakespeare > 3. a. < wherever a … writer or any sort of artist is plying his trade — C.E.Montague > < a doctor by trade — Times Literary Supplement > as (1) < the harness maker … had learned his trade after five years' service as an apprentice — Sherwood Anderson > < worked at the printer's trade while preparing for the teaching profession > < a carpenter carrying the tools of his trade > (2) < had demeaned herself a little, as the daughter of a doctor, by marrying into trade … when she married the matter-of-fact, industrious rising young cheese merchant — Florence Bullock > < English society … preserved intact the distinction between trade and gentility — G.H.Sabine > b. < mechanical trades can move in as soon as … sheets are placed — Sweet's Catalog Service > c. (1) < as a member of the writing trade — H.A.Smith > < the book and news trade clearly oppose the adoption of a national censorship — Publishers' Weekly > < the word in the trade is that May sales were not up to expectations — Securities Outlook > (2) 4. a. (1) archaic (2) obsolete < have you any further trade with us — Shakespeare > (3) dialect b. (1) < a materials shortage that affected first manufacturing, then trade > : traffic < a slump in the cotton trade > < laid off the new clerks when trade was slack > < was doing a brisk trade in umbrellas > : market < souvenirs imported for the tourist trade > < children's books … issued annually for the Christmas trade — Bookman's Glossary > specifically < maritime nations for whom world trade is an important source of income > < carried on trade in tea and spices with the Orient > < a ship engaged in the coastwise trade > (2) < salt … which sold for 2 dollars cash per bushel, or 3 dollars in trade — Andrew Ellicott > (3) archaic < this new scheme of a trade round the world — Daniel Defoe > (4) < reported the trade from the floor of the exchange > especially < an even trade > < he's interested in making a trade for another good pitcher — New York Times > < repairing a car he had taken in trade > (5) < a girl who waited on trade in his father's shop — Sherwood Anderson > < sent notices to the trade about the new location of the store > < a restaurant catering to the breakfast trade > (6) < data reported for thirty-seven wholesale trades — E.L.Smith > : industry < in the rug and shawl trades — C.M.Whittaker & C.C.Wilcock > 5. chiefly dialect a. < all that trade — Sir Walter Scott > b. < with beatings up … by sailors and rough trade — Gershon Legman > 6. < the steady drive of the trades is changed to fitful inland airs — Marjory S. Douglas > II. transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. obsolete a. b. < the Greek language which then was the most traded … through the whole universe — John Donne > c. < learned schoolmasters to trade up the Christian youth in … liberal arts — Thomas Becon > 3. archaic < captain of a ship trading the Indies — Amy Lowell > 4. a. (1) < the white men who penetrated to the … wilds were always ready … to trade rifles and watches — J.F.Cooper > < stolen horses, which would only be sold or traded off … hundreds of miles from home — J.F.Dobie > (2) < reluctant to trade the security and rewards of private life for the hazards … and the low pay of government office — Time > < trade off the right to navigate the lower Mississippi for a slice of the Newfoundland fisheries — E.S.Corwin > < trade a proven pitcher to another team for four rookies > also < when parties trade votes on certain bills on purely party grounds — G.H.Benton > < trade places with someone who likes to sit by open windows > : exchange in give-and-take < we traded shots and I got winged — Harvey Fergusson > b. < trade holdings at a good profit > intransitive verb 1. a. (1) chiefly dialect < where be ye trading today — Thomas Hardy > (2) < a place … over which the pigeons were trading between the stubbles and the wood — John Collier b. 1901 > b. obsolete < would come and speak with him and trade for a peace — Nicholas Lichefield > c. archaic < in private … she traded more deeply in the occult sciences — Sir Walter Scott > 2. a. < all the vessels that trade to or from the Red sea — Samuel Johnson > b. (1) < prohibits American firms from trading with the enemy > < a company is formed to trade in building materials — Edward Jenks > (2) < he likes the stock … and he is accustomed to trading in and out of its shares — A.B.C. of Puts & Calls > c. < the chief justice … traded largely in pardons — T.B.Macaulay > d. < trades only with merchants she knows > : make one's purchases : shop < trades at his store when she is in town > e. < the common trades around 15 — Investor's Reader > 3. < wanted to change his days off and got a friend to trade with him > : make an exchange < wore each other's hat for a while and then traded back > • - trade on - trade on the equity III. 1. < trade channels > < trade statistics > < trade problems > 2. < a trade path > < a trade ducat > < trade calendars > < trade catalogs of the mail-order houses > specifically < the relatively early displacement of native equipment by trade goods — Eleanor Leacock > < trade tomahawks > < trade blankets > 3. a. < a trade fair > < a trade show for film exhibitors > < a trade price > < trade sales > b. < a trade convention > < trade circles > < run ads in a trade paper > < a trade journal > < a trade term not in most vocabularies > c. < a trade printing house > < a trade compositor > < a trade bindery > 4. a. also trades < a trade club > < a trade hall > b. < trade or professional work > < trade dictionaries > < trade students > 5. < the trade belts > < trade clouds > IV. archaic < the winds … seemed to be more steadily against us, blowing almost trade — Daniel Defoe > V. 1. slang 2. VI. < trade paperbacks > also |
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