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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Further on, some remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here the high base of an Acropolis, with the floating outline of a Parthenon; there traces of a quay, as if an ancient port had formerly abutted on the borders of the ocean, and disappeared with its merchant vessels and its war-galleys.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was contradicted, and the rumour circu-lated that it was a young merchant who had come into the enormous fortune and married the great ballet dancer, and that at the wedding the drunken young fool had burned seventy thousand roubles at a candle out of pure bravado.
-- These houses are almost exclu-sively inhabited by the merchant class.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He collected the rents of whole colonies of filthy streets and alleys by the waterside, advanced money to the seamen and petty officers of merchant vessels, had a share in the ventures of divers mates of East Indiamen, smoked his smuggled cigars under the very nose of the Custom House, and made appointments on 'Change with men in glazed hats and round jackets pretty well every day.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- mirthfully winking his eyes, the good-natured merchant asked.
-- "My name is Baklashoff, merchant of the second guild," he introduced himself, extending his soft, broad hand; "we must do our duty.
-- "Captain Uri Dmitrievich Danchenko; merchant Gregory Ephimovich Kouleshoff," etc., etc., etc.
-- "Don't drop your hand; hold it thus," he turned to a young man who let his hand fall--"'that in the case which----'" The portly, whiskered gentleman, the colonel, merchant and others held their hands as directed by the priest, and seemed to do so with particular pleasure, holding their hands quite high, and their fingers most proper; others seemed to do it against their will, and carelessly.
-- The indictment read as follows: "On the 17th of January, 18--, suddenly died in the Hotel Mauritania, merchant of the second guild, Therapont Emelianovich Smelkoff.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merchant of Venice he suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild Tcries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise.
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