commerce

n. 贸易，商业

英文词源

commerce: commerce: [16] Commerce is etymologically related to market, merchandise, merchant, and mercury. It comes, perhaps via French commerce, from Latin commercium ‘trade’, a compound noun formed from the collective prefix com- ‘together’ and merx ‘merchandise’. The adjective commercial is 17th-century, its nominal use for ‘broadcast advertisement’ 20thcentury.
=> market, merchant, mercury
commerce (n.): 1530s, from Middle French commerce (14c.), from Latin commercium "trade, trafficking," from com- "together" (see com-) + merx (genitive mercis) "merchandise" (see market (n.)).

1. There were notable jousts with the Secretary of Commerce.: 和商业部长之间明显存在竞争。

3. During the war, they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.: 在战争期间, 他们禁止与敌国通商.

4. The marketplace was where commerce was traditionally carried on.: 这个集市是传统的贸易场所.