engage in trade，be in business，go into business，engage in business deals，trade ；

[例句] 他与朋友合伙经商. He associated himself with his friend in a business undertaking.

[例句] 经商成功不一定赚钱. Business success does not automatically lead to financial success.

manufacturer ；

[例句] 制造商之间的恶性价格战已将利润削减到了最低。 A vicious price war between manufacturers has cut margins to the bone.

[例句] 几家制造商也在蚕食福特公司的传统客户群。 Several manufacturers are also nibbling away at Ford's traditional customer base.

itinerant trader，pedlar，itinerant merchant，pedlery ；

[例句] 剧院老板从电影发行商处租电影放映。 Theater owners lease films from film distributors.

[例句] 你在电影院消费的一大部分钱都会回到电影发行商手里。 A lot of the money that you pay at the cinema goes back to the film distributors.

goodwill ；

[例句] 无形资产包括商誉 、 专利权 、 商标 、 版权, 以及专营权. Intangible assets include goodwill, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and franchise.

[例句] 商店连同其商誉一并出售. The goodwill is being sold together with the shop.

agent，[经] agency，commercial agent ；

[例句] 这家广告代理商每年销售额达14亿美元。 The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales.

[例句] 广告标准管理局控告房地产代理商使用无耻的谎言。 The Advertising Standards Authority accused estate agents of using blatant untruths.

small retailer，pedlar，peddlery ；

[例句] 商贩们的纪念品生意很红火。 Vendors were doing a brisk trade in souvenirs.

[例句] 市场商贩就像农家场院的公鸡一样大声吆喝. The market traders cried out like barnyard cocks.

[经] speculative trater，speculator ；

[例句] 股票投机商想整他一顿。 Stock speculators wanted his scalp.

[例句] 这些房屋是由地产投机商建造的. These houses were built by property speculators.

[经] insuer；名 underwriter ；

[例句] 你可以就受损货物向保险商索赔. You can claim for the damaged goods with the underwriter.

[例句] 您会像其他保险商那样付给我们保险费用回扣 吗 ? Will you give us a premium rebate just as other underwriter do?

shipping，merchant marine，merchant fleet，argosy ；

[例句] 这个船东仍拥有一支7艘货船的商船队. The shipowner has still held a merchant fleet of seven cargo - vessels.

[例句] 驱逐舰护送一支商船队. Destroyers escorted a convey of merchant ships.

supplier；

[例句] 那将使得对立供应商之间的竞争更加你死我活。 That would make the competition between rival suppliers even deadlier.

[例句] 一些供应商赔本销售存货。 Some suppliers were selling at a loss to shift stock.

business street，shopping street ；

[例句] 商业街的零售商报告说圣诞节前销售量显著提高. High street retailers reported a marked increase in sales before Christmas.

[例句] 这班公共汽车经过商业街 吗 ? Is this the bus that goes by the mall?

agency，dealer，[经] distributor，franchiser ；

[例句] 他的继承人把这幅画卖给了伦敦艺术品经销商阿格纽斯。 His heir sold the painting to the London art dealer Agnews.

[例句] 大理石拱门的经销商们面临租金的大幅上涨。 Traders in Marble Arch are facing huge rent increases.

[经] auctioneer ；

[例句] 拍卖商买卖赃物，违反了行规。 The auctioneers are violating a code of practice by dealing in stolen goods.

[例句] 能说会道的拍卖商对自己的口才十分赏识. The eloquent auctioneer smiled at his own ingenuity.

[医]publisher，bookman ；

[例句] 出版商预计该书至多能卖出1,500本。 The publisher expected the book to sell 1,500 copies, tops.

[例句] 他通过网络把作品发给了出版商。 He sent his work to his publishers by modem.

commercial，mercantile，merchant ；

[例句] 银行是商业的中心. Banks are the nerves of commerce.

[例句] 到了1982年,底特律新商业的光彩有所减退. By 1982 some of the blush on Detroit's new downtown had faded.

exporter，[经] export merchant ；

[例句] 降低贸易壁垒导致出口商各自为政。 The lowering of trade barriers has led to a free-for-all among exporters.

[例句] 在国际贸易展览会上,我国的出口商为国争光. Our exporters proudly kept the flag flying at the international trade exhibition.

importer，[经] import merchant，importers ；

[例句] 不诚实的进口商将会能够把从顾客那里收取的增值税据为己有。 Dishonest importers would be able to pocket the VAT collected from customers.

[例句] 设在伦敦的意大利产品进口商 a London-based importer of Italian goods

salt producer ；

[例句] 盐商很有钱, 天下人谁不吃盐呢? Salt traders are rich, because no one can live without salt.

[例句] 这一时期云南省内私盐更是盛行,究其成因当与盐商的牟取暴利有着重要的内在联系. The illegaldealings were very rampant during this time because salt merchants were pursuing illegal profits fiercely.

purveyor，[经] undertaker ；

[例句] 肥料 、 种子及基本耕种用具由承办商提供. Farming tools, seeds and fertilizers are provided by our gardening contractor.

[例句] 该公司说, 这将使棕榈岛集团拖欠款项的承办商数量减少了一半. That should clean Nakheel's slate with half its contractors, the firm says.

名 retail trader，distributor；

[例句] 布尔默公司是巴黎水和牙买加红带拉格啤酒的英国分销商。 Bulmer is the UK distributor for Perrier and the Jamaican lager Red Stripe.

[例句] 她想避开分销商直接自厂家买进货物. She wants to buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman.