1The action of buying and selling goods and services.

全面禁止象牙贸易的行动。

外贸方面显著的增长。

肉类贸易。

1. 1.1dated, derogatory The practice of making one's living in business, as opposed to in a profession or from unearned income.
   〈旧，主贬〉经商
   the aristocratic classes were contemptuous of those in trade

   贵族阶级鄙视商人。

2. 1.2North American (in sports) a transfer; an exchange.
   〈北美〉（体育界）转会，交换，交换运动员
   players can demand a trade after five years of service

   服务五年之后，球员可以提出转会。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Also, the franchise was saddled with bad draft picks and even worse trades in its infancy and still hasn't recovered.
   • He could make a trade demand while inhaling, then take it back while exhaling.
   • Because of trades and minor league promotions, all three outfield spots and two middle infield positions are up for grabs.
   • He was at the helm for less than two years and only had one off-season to make trades and sign free agents.
   • Meanwhile, NFL fans have come to expect trades featuring faceless draft picks.
   • He told local reporters that he would never demand a trade no matter how ugly his contract negotiations become.
   • An aggressive streak with free agency and trades has offset some so-so draft picks and mistakes with the defense.
   • With such a recent history of poor trades and draft picks, some changes needed to be made.
   • It's clear his uncertain status limits what Philadelphia can demand in a trade.
   • But injuries and trades are expected in sports.
   • Sportswriters love midseason trades because they're fun to write about.
   • Few players on the roster have minor league options, so one solution might be a two-for-one trade to open a roster spot.
   • They're reviewing rules with brokers who sell their funds and with transfer agencies that process trades.
   • I wasn't concerned so much with who they got in return or whether they ‘won’ a trade.
   • Despite the aid of a late-round trade and two compensatory picks, they left with eight unfilled.
   • This trade is conditional to all four players passing their physicals.
   • There's contracts not worth the paper they're written on as players everywhere seemingly can demand trades whenever or however they want.
   • What other executive has turned so many mediocre/bad teams into solid playoff teams through his trades?
   • The big fella no longer is demanding a trade, which wasn't feasible anyway, or to be waived, which was unlikely.
   • By contract, he can demand a trade to any team, minus six he excludes, within 10 days of the World Series.

2A skilled job, typically one requiring manual skills and special training.

建筑行业的基本原则。

一个职业木匠。

1. 2.1the tradetreated as singular or plural The people engaged in a particular area of business.
   同行业者，同业，同仁
   in the trade this sort of computer is called “a client-based system.”

   这种计算机被业内人士称为“客户机系统”。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The company sells mainly to the trade, but is now hoping to add more retail sales to the mix.
   • We will not be attempting to target the trade, so we're not going to be selling things like cement mixers.
   • Before the season begins those in the trade identify jackfruit trees in the area that give good quality fruit.
   • As befits the trade, antique dealers are gabby and knowledgeable and prone to bemoaning that things aren't what they used to be.
   • It was his policy to ask no questions in his dealings with the trade.
   • These were the small fry of the trade, the hawkers, who often reappeared with new stock mere hours after a confrontation.
   • As they are selling to the trade, the minimum order is £50 but the fungi will keep for a couple of years and the small jars would make the greatest presents.
   • Illicit dealers targeted the trade as demand for poultry meat increased year on year.
   • Gauthier's Chevrolet Sunfire carried a recording device - known in the trade as a EDR, or event data recorder.
   • He comes into the trade at a buoyant time, with brisk business reported locally in the market.
   • That paragraph requires the loan in question to have been used wholly for the purposes of the trade carried out by the recipient of the loan, in this case the company.
   • With a worried look on your face, they give you the bits they sell to the trade rather than the DIY-ers; better quality, and much cheaper.
   • Such cakes are sometimes called ‘high ratio cakes’ in the trade.
   • These individuals are the lynchpin of the trade, the middlemen and act as the link between breeder and pet shops.
   • Pet owners will have to register their wildlife and agree never to sell them back into the trade.
   • Soon the business began to offer wholesale framing to the trade.
   • The aim should be to build an honest relationship with 10 journalists across the trade and national press.
   • For the information of those of you not in the trade, that ‘under prolonged questioning by journalists’ speaks volumes.
   • This phrase suggests that in the Government's view lower dose levels and fewer supplements would be better for public health but unfortunate for the trade.
   • There is a new hard-headedness to the trade today.

   Synonyms

   commerce, buying and selling, dealing, traffic, trafficking, business, marketing, merchandising, bargaining
2. 2.2the tradeBritish treated as singular or plural People licensed to sell alcoholic drink.
   〈英〉执照酒商
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Publicans say the licensed trade is dying in Bradford as people are reluctant to re-open businesses which were damaged during the riots.
   • They argued that times are hard for the trade as there is little business in Pendle and especially Nelson with few thriving pubs and clubs.
   • Most of those who engaged in the trade shared this view.
   • This bars entry to the trade with licences being sold for up to €150,000, he said.
   • Countless other women in the licensed trade will be watching the case with great interest.
   • I do not believe that stopping the debate or cancelling the very hard work that has been done so far by both officers and representatives of the trade would be of help in any way.
   • The truth is that nobody - the Government, the police, the licensed trade - can be sure what will happen when the new law takes effect.
   • David has lived in pubs all his life and is the third generation of his family to have gone into the trade.
   • I think that for the next two years or so we could see a similar thing happening, and that would be a real problem for the licensed trade.
   • He told campaigners that he would speak to representatives in the licensed trade to see if he could find a buyer for the pub.
   • He knows a thing or two about York's licensed trade.
   • Well, the experts in the trade tell us that your favourite soft drink tastes best when it's chilled right down to four degrees Celsius.
   • Lovely man, but I don't think he's got a future in the licensed trade.
   • But many in the licensed trade are unhappy about the latest attempt to curb binge drinking.
   • A vintner found selling corrupt wine was forced to drink it, then banned from the trade.
   • Traders reported significant new contacts, both from within the trade and from among visiting enthusiasts.
   • The licensed trade is in his blood; his father ran a pub in Sowerby Bridge.
   • The good news is that if you want to pursue a career in the licensed trade there are industry recognised forms of career development.
   • It is important to remember that the marketer's goals and the trade's goals are not necessarily the same.
   • The licensed trade are self-righteous, self-obsessed and selfish in their opposition to a ban.
3. 2.3informal A person in gay male sexual encounters who is not penetrated sexually and usually considers himself to be heterosexual.

3usually tradesA trade wind.

肉类贸易。

1no object Buy and sell goods and services.

从事奢侈品贸易的中间商。

1. 1.1with object Buy or sell (a particular item or product)
   买；卖（某物，产品）
   she has traded millions of dollars' worth of metals

   她经手了数百万美元的金属贸易。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Instead of trading a commodity, what is traded is the right or the obligation to buy or sell a commodity at a future point.
   • Vets are the only ones who are allowed to sell it, trade it, and so on.
   • People and carts ran throughout the dusty dirt streets and animals being traded or sold to butchers or other farmers crowded the path.
   • When you savour your morning coffee, you're sipping on the second most traded commodity after oil.
   • He said housing should not be treated in the same way as non-essential traded commodities for speculation, or investment.
   • The second most valuable traded commodity, after oil, industrial coffee thrives on economic and environmental exploitation.
   • So call your credit card company and ask them to mark your account ‘Do not sell or trade my name to another company.’
   • People were running about, buying, selling, and trading their goods.
   • These lists of vulnerable computers are often traded or sold over the Internet and help virus writers plant their viruses quickly.
   • Then they would conquer these countries, take their glass products back, and trade them with the next country in line.
   • Consumers ‘will have plenty of choices for legally sold and legally traded furniture.’
   • I have followed and traded the commodities markets since 1975.
   • He started his career trading commodities, working till 2am to catch the latest crop reports from Brazil.
   • The group estimates that about $8 billion in pirated American-published books were sold or traded last year.
   • Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil.
   • There will be swap meets and dealer booths for those looking to sell or trade items, or expand their collections.
   • It was here that the humans sold and traded their slaves.
   • The most commonly traded commodity was ‘dumps’ of credit card data.
   • The expense issue would be less of a problem if there was a mandatory requirement (or a tax penalty if not fulfilled) for shops to sell fairly trading goods.
   • There are people from all over the world buying, selling, and trading collectibles and antiques on eBay.
2. 1.2 (especially of shares or currency) be bought and sold at a specified price.
   （尤指股票、货币）被买卖，被交易
   the dollar was trading where it was in January

   美元交易价格与一月份持平。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Often, the resulting price will be less than the net asset value, meaning that the shares trade at a discount.
   • Shares are currently trading at $0.68, so this is an excellent time to get into the market.
   • He said he would continue to build up his stake in the company but it would depend on the price at which the shares were trading.
   • However, with the shares currently trading just off an all-time high, we would look for price weakness to build a position.
   • Across the board - both here and in Britain - property company shares are trading at substantial discounts to their net asset values.
   • The dollar's attempted strong upward thrust was for now largely rebuffed in volatile currency trading.
   • This values the company, whose shares trade at 247p, at 16 times prospective profits.
   • Certainly, there are some good reasons why most property companies' shares should trade at a modest discount to their net asset value.
   • Buying incubator shares at inflated prices, whose underlying assets where just other dotcom shares trading at inflated prices, was never going to work.
   • The shares were then trading at 50 cent.
   • The preference shares have traded at a 29 per cent premium to the ordinary shares.
   • By April 1981, there were a large number of newspaper stocks publicly traded on U.S. stock exchanges.
   • The currency then traded freely for the first time in a decade and has since lost around 70% of its value.
   • People must not be allowed to trade on price sensitive confidential information, where others are, on the other side of those share trades, are inevitably disadvantaged.
   • The shares are currently trading around the 52-week high of 138 pence they hit on April 7.
   • Another alternative is to buy shares in a property company whose share price is trading at a discount to its net asset value.
   • So even though the shares are trading at a fifth of their peak last September they still look a bit too rich for me.
   • A company will agree with its investment bank to create an option to stabilise the share price before the shares begin trading publicly.
   • Shares are currently trading at $10.80 and there is a healthy turnover rate.
   • The shares are currently trading at over $48 and analysts have a share price target of over $70 on the stock.

2with object Exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.

他们用灰六鳃鲨肝换鱼油。

人质被用来换取武器。

1. 2.1 Give and receive (something, typically insults or blows)
   〈喻〉相互交换（尤指相互辱骂、对打）
   they traded a few punches

   他们挥拳对打。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Reputations have been attacked, insults traded, legal action threatened.
   • The man I met and traded insults with on that summer afternoon has been depicted as rude, abrasive, hostile and unpredictable by many writers and would-be experts over the years.
   • Visitors to the interactive exhibition can perform in front of the tough panel with the judges delivering their verdicts, more often than not trading insults among themselves.
   • So far at least, he has escaped the disdain which eventually greets any great champion who keeps trading punches well past his prime.
   • I watched in amazement as the two combatants traded blows and then there was a flash of lightening that dazzled my eyes.
   • The crack of willow on leather was replaced by the thud of fists on jaws as drunken spectators traded blows when players came off the pitch.
   • They spent the next little while trading creative insults, the result being that Ellen was reduced to giggling and chuckling constantly.
   • We fought without mercy as well as trading insults.
   • In brief instances when they collided, one could see them attacking with outrageously fast kicks and punches, either trading blows are blocking blows.
   • They would charge at each other, trade a few useless blows, and then back out of range of the other's strike.
   • As soon as the scrum broke up it was all in, punches traded, insults thrown and another lecture from the referee.
   • They traded blows, insults, and annoyed mutters for several long minutes.
   • When two men become involved in a brawl and start trading blows and punches and kicks and so forth, how does the law of provocation relate to that circumstance?
   • Both players traded blows in the middle of the field behind the back of the referee but in full view of both linesmen.
   • The two pugilists traded blows early on, and seemed fairly evenly matched.
   • Strong language has been used, insults have been traded, attacks have been personalised and bitterness is made visible.
   • I'm quite interested in political debate, but there's a difference between debate and trading insults.
   • Trained up for the purpose and in pairs sworn to die together, only members of the leading classes would do battle, after trading insults and accompanied by musical instruments playing.
   • Rival groups jostled for space and traded insults, but there were no arrests.
   • The pair had been expected to trade insults and vitriol at their post-match press conference following an acrimonious second session on Friday.
2. 2.2North American Transfer (a player) to another club or team.
   〈北美〉将（运动员）转会（或转队）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • He should have been happy to be traded to a contending team after his agent messed up.
   • Teams are cautious about trading a player who could come back to haunt them.
   • The team wants to trade the franchise player and rid itself of his $10.5 rail lion salary cap burden.
   • He's in the final year of his contract, and the team attempted to trade him before he was injured last June.
   • He remains adamant that he won't restructure his contract to make it easier for the team to trade him.
   • Luckily, the team does not need to trade players to lose payroll, just let some go.
   • Baseball fans who oppose the current system hate it when teams have to hold fire sales or trade away players who are soon to be free agents.
   • He knows that rarely - if ever - can a team trade a franchise player and improve.
   • On the flip side, in many leagues you also can pick up players who are traded to your league.
   • The gut-wrenching thing about the Red Sox is they traded their most beloved player and then the team took off and started winning.
   • Team officials are remaining quiet about the possibility of trading the most prominent player the franchise has had since moving west.
   • On the other hand, as team president, he has to consider trading those loyal players if it means strengthening his roster.
   • A player might be traded, which could be disruptive, but he still will have the same job at the same pay - just somewhere else.
   • If they're serious about improving, the Vikings will trade one of those players for defensive help.
   • Second of all, he wasn't the type of leader you'd expect from a player a team traded its entire draft for.
   • When players are traded, sometimes they take shots at their former team.
   • The team was willing to trade one first-round selection, but not both.
   • As you can see, there are a variety of harrowing issues that take place off the ice when a player is traded from one team to another and must travel from one city to another.
   • Before a regularly scheduled game has a player ever been traded from the home team to the visiting team or vice versa?
   • Starting August 1, players can be traded only if they clear waivers.