n.商人；店主；专家
adj.商业的；商船的
n.（班轮提单）货方；签约方
The merchant had received a shipment of tea. 这个商人收到了一船茶叶。
The merchant's cash sales each day were $300. 那店主一天有300美元的现金售货收入。
Art experts, who have already dated the painting to this time, say the Heidelberg discovery is a breakthrough and the earliest mention linking the merchant's wife to the portrait. 美术专家们还称，关于此画，海德尔堡的发现是一个突破，并且是最早提出把商人的妻子和人物肖像结合起来这一说法的。
用作形容词 (adj.)This is a merchant bank. 这是个商业银行。
His brother is in the merchant marine. 他的兄弟是名商船船员。
merchant通常指较大的批发商,尤指从事国际贸易的大商人,或经销某一专门商品的人。
