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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He not only thoroughly understood navigation, but commerce also—a two-fold qualification eminently useful to skippers in the merchant service.
-- At the time of the DUNCAN'S visit to the island, the population consisted of three people, a Frenchman and two mulattoes, all three employed by the merchant proprietor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I re-quested to be quartered somewhere else, and was shifted to the other end of the town, to the house of a merchant with a large family, and a long beard, as I remember him.
-- I waited there till dawn, and soon after six I was off, and at the old merchant Trepalaf's.
-- All I DO know is that Paparchin was a very rich merchant indeed.'
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 301THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN here was once a merchant who had only one child, a son, Tthat was very young, and barely able to run alone.
-- Then the merchant told him how all his wealth was gone to the bot-tom of the sea, and how he had nothing left but that little plot of land.
-- The merchant thought this was no great thing to ask; that it would most likely be his dog or his cat, or something of that sort, but forgot his lit-tle boy Heinel; so he agreed to the bargain, and signed and sealed the bond to do what was asked of him.
-- At the sight of this he was overjoyed, and forgetting all about his son, went into trade again, and became a richer merchant than before.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took leave of my wife, and boy and girl, with tears on both sides, and went on board the Adventure, a merchant ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, captain John Nicholas, of Liverpool, commander.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This attracted so many young persons of both sexes, and, when the shades of evening began to fall, occasioned so much interruption to the business, that the merchant became very pressing in his proposals that Mr F.'s Aunt should be removed.
-- A conveyance was accordingly brought to the door, which, by the joint efforts of the merchant and Flora, this remarkable woman was at last induced to enter; though not without even then putting her head out of the window, and demanding to have him 'brought for'ard' for the purpose originally mentioned.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way he can better answer than any one else.
-- To all this I joyously assented; for besides the affection I now felt for Queequeg, he was an experienced harpooneer, and as such, could not fail to be of great usefulness to one, who, like me, was wholly ignorant of the mysteries of whaling, though well acquainted with the sea, as known to merchant seamen.
-- Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.
-- Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself.
-- I've been several voyages in the merchant service, and I think that ""Merchant service be damned.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the old lady had been so kind to him in his illness, he endeavoured to think no more of the subject just then; so he listened attentively to a great many stories she told him, about an amiable and handsome daughter of hers, who was married to an amiable and handsome man, and lived in the country; and about a son, who was clerk to a merchant in the West Indies; and who was, also, such a good young man, and wrote such dutiful letters home four times a-year, that it brought the tears into her eyes to talk about them.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wrote the English captain's widow a full account of all my adventures - my slavery, escape, and how I had met with the Portuguese captain at sea, the humanity of his be-haviour, and what condition I was now in, with all other necessary directions for my supply; and when this honest captain came to Lisbon, he found means, by some of the English merchants there, to send over, not the order only, but a full account of my story to a merchant in London, who represented it effectually to her; whereupon she not only delivered the money, but out of her own pocket sent the Portugal captain a very handsome present for his humanity and charity to me.
-- The merchant in London, vesting this hundred pounds in English goods, such as the captain had written for, sent them directly to him at Lisbon, and he brought them all safe to me to the Brazils; among which, without my direc-tion (for I was too young in my business to think of them), he had taken care to have all sorts of tools, ironwork, and utensils necessary for my plantation, and which were of great use to me.
-- This being regularly attested by a notary, and a procu-ration affixed, he directed me to send it, with a letter of his writing, to a merchant of his acquaintance at the place; and then proposed my staying with him till an account came of the return.
-- So, the first thing I did, I got a merchant in Lisbon to write to his correspondent in London, not only to pay a bill, but to go find her out, and carry her, in money, a hundred pounds from me, and to talk with her, and comfort her in her poverty, by telling her she should, if I lived, have a further supply: at the same time I sent my two sisters in the country a hundred pounds each, they being, though not in want, yet not in very good cir-cumstances; one having been married and left a widow; and the other having a husband not so kind to her as he should be.
-- In a word, I was so prepossessed against my going by sea at all, except from Calais to Dover, that I resolved to travel all the way by land; which, as I was not in haste, and did not value the charge, was by much the pleasanter way: and to make it more so, my old cap-tain brought an English gentleman, the son of a merchant in Lisbon, who was willing to travel with me; after which we picked up two more English merchants also, and two young Portuguese gentlemen, the last going to Paris only; so that in all there were six of us and five servants; the two mer-chants and the two Portuguese, contenting themselves with one servant between two, to save the charge; and as for me, I got an English sailor to travel with me as a servant, besides my man Friday, who was too much a stranger to be capable of supplying the place of a servant on the road.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- C. R. Walker, dry-goods merchant and possessor of at least two hundred thousand dollars, had taken another; a well-known coal merchant had been induced to take the third, and Hurstwood and his friends the fourth.
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