merchant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 商人， 零售商，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to this, his natural and not to be alienated inheri-tance, the messenger on horseback had exactly the same possessions as the King, the first Minister of State, or the richest merchant in London.
-- She always made a bar-gain for it, by holding up, as a statement of its just price, one finger less than the merchant held up, whatever his number might be.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was very unpleasant, from a merchant who was buying a forest on his wife's property.
-- A smart guard jumped out, giving a whistle, and after him one by one the impatient passengers began to get down: an officer of the guards, holding himself erect, and looking severely about him; a nimble little merchant with a satchel, smiling gaily; a peasant with a sack over his shoulder.
-- "Kostya, give orders that if the merchant Ryabinin comes...I told him to come today, he's to be brought in and to wait for me..." "Why, do you mean to say you're selling the forest to Ryabinin?"
-- Not a single merchant ever buys a forest without counting the trees, unless they get it given them for nothing, as you're doing now.
-- "Well, well..." Chapter 17 Stepan Arkadyevitch went upstairs with his pocket bulging with notes, which the merchant had paid him for three months in advance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer.
-- We are simply going to place her under the protection of one of her relatives, a rich merchant at Hong Kong."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He fled to Gottlieb as to the wise and tender father, and begged to be saved from Success and Holabirds and A. DeWitt Tubbses and their hordes of address-making scientists, degree-hunting authors, pulpit orators, popular surgeons, valeted journalists, sentimental merchant princes, literary politicians, titled sportsmen, statesmenlike generals, interviewed senators, sententious bishops.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fifteen roubles I sent you four months ago I borrowed, as you know, on security of my pension, from Vassily Ivanovitch Vahrushin a merchant of this town.
-- 'I am the messenger from our office, from the merchant Shelopaev, and I've come on business.'
-- 'There are two storeys of rooms, let by a merchant called Yushin; I've been there.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Spenlow being a littledrowsy after the champagne- honour to the soil that grew the 449grape, to the grape-that made the wine, to the sun that ripened it,and to the merchant who adulterated it!- and being fast asleep in acorner of the carriage, I rode by the side and talked to Dora.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
-- Empty-headed people who babble about their own affairs because they have nothing else to occupy them, naturally conclude that if people say nothing of their doings it is because their doings will not bear being talked about; so the highly respectable merchant became a scoundrel, and the late beau was an old rogue.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.
-- Henry Clerval was the son of a merchant of Geneva.
-- He was a Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years, when, for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government.
-- 'Felix conducted the fugitives through France to Lyons and across Mont Cenis to Leghorn, where the merchant had decided to wait a favourable opportunity of passing into some part of the Turkish dominions.
-- 'When the news reached Leghorn that Felix was de-prived of his wealth and rank, the merchant commanded his daughter to think no more of her lover, but to prepare to return to her native country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The upshot was, that we found a worthy young merchant or shipping-broker, not long established in business, who wanted intelligent help, and who wanted capital, and who in due course of time and receipt would want a partner.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she came to the merchant in the town, he did not give her more than two talers for a skin, and when the others came, he did not give them so much, and said: 'What can I do with all these skins?'
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