喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈkɑːmɜːrs/ · /ˈkɒmɜːs/商業 / 貿易

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

    示範例句 · Example

    The old city by the river grew rich because it was a busy center of commerce.

    逐字河邊那座古老的城市變得富有，因為它是一個繁忙的商業中心。

    「commerce」指「買賣商品和服務」這整件事，是比較正式、比較宏觀的說法，常用在談整個社會或國家層面的生意往來，例如政府「管理商業」。比 business 正式：business 可以講一家小店的生意，commerce 更常指整體的商業活動。它是不可數名詞，不加 s。

    常見搭配

    • chamber of commerce

      商會

      an organization of business people in an area

      The chamber of commerce organized a fair for local shops.

    • e-commerce / electronic commerce

      電子商務

      buying and selling goods and services on the internet

      E-commerce lets people shop from home at any time.

    • international commerce

      國際貿易

      trade between different countries

      Ships and planes make international commerce possible.

    意思相近

    tradebusinessdealingsbuying and selling

core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。

同家族的字

意思相近

tradebusinessdealingsbuying and selling

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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

  • 1

    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.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。