As commercial and cultural contacts between East and West developed, Arab and Persian traders began calling on China along the Silk Road in increasing numbers.
If you gamble on the stock market, you are an investor... If you gamble on the derivatives market, you are a trader... If you gamble at the casino, you are a loser... Morality?
Mandarin
西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼除了是一位意大利政治家和现任的意大利总理,也是一个成功的商人。
西爾維奧·貝盧斯科尼除了是一位意大利政治家和現任的意大利總理,也是一個成功的商人。
xī ěr wéi ào · bèi lú sī kē ní chú le shì yī wèi yì dà lì zhèng zhì jiā hé xiàn rèn de yì dà lì zǒng lǐ , yě shì yí gè chéng gōng de shāng rén 。
Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, the current Prime Minister of Italy, as well as a successful entrepreneur.
This businessman keeps engaging in illegal activies, I don't understand why he is still safely away from troubles.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
印度商人
印度商人
yìn dù shāng rén
Indian merchants
Mandarin
他们买进货物要受商人的剥削,卖出农产要受商人的勒抑,钱米借贷要受重利盘剥者的剥削,他们很迫切地要解决这三个问题。
他們買進貨物要受商人的剝削,賣出農產要受商人的勒抑,錢米借貸要受重利盤剝者的剝削,他們很迫切地要解決這三個問題。
tā men mǎi jìn huò wù yào shòu shāng rén de bō xuē , mài chū nóng chǎn yào shòu shāng rén de lè yì , qián mǐ jiè dài yào shòu zhòng lì pán bō zhě de bō xuē , tā men hěn pò qiè de yào jiě jué zhè sān ge wèn tí .
When they buy goods, the merchants exploit them; when they sell their farm produce, the merchants cheat them; when they borrow money for rice, they are fleeced by the usurers; and they are eager to kind a solution to these three problems.