mercantile是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 贸易的, 商业的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have the Mercantile and Shipping Gazette here, and we'll see the name on the list, and all about it."
-- The last intelligence of Captain Grant was from Callao on the 30th of May, 1862, as appeared in the Mercantile and Shipping Gazette.
-- Three or four vessels, anchored in Twofold Bay, constituted the mercantile fleet of the place; none of them were bound for Melbourne, nor Sydney, nor Point de Galle, at any of which ports Glenarvan would have found ships loading for England.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had a lively picture of Captain Nichols flying headlong down a narrow gangway before the uplifted foot of an angry mate, and, like a true Englishman, rejoicing in the spirit of the Mercantile Marine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I propose,' said Mr.Micawber, 'Bills- a convenience to the mercantile world, for which,I believe, we are originally indebted to the Jews, who appear to meto have had a devilish deal too much to do with them ever since-because they are negotiable.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Hawkins was the youngest of the two daughters of a Bristol merchant, of course, he must be called; but, as the whole of the profits of his mercantile life appeared so very moderate, it was not unfair to guess the dignity of his line of trade had been very moderate also.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd's List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened to raise their rates of premium, were unanimous on this point.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began, too, sometimes of an evening, when Mrs Clennam expressed no particular wish for his society, to resort to a tavern in the neighbourhood to look at the shipping news and closing prices in the evening paper, and even to exchange small socialities with mercantile Sea Captains who frequented that establishment.
-- 'Our illustrious host and friend,' said Bar; 'our shining mercantile star; going into politics?'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had regard for the ability which could amass a small fortune, own a nice home, keep a barouche or carriage, perhaps, wear fine clothes, and maintain a good mercantile position.
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