单词 | caravan trade |
释义 | > as lemmascaravan trade a. As a modifier, in sense 1a, as in caravan route, caravan trade, caravan trader, etc. [In quot. 1677, caravan-master translates French †caravan-bachi (1653), itself a borrowing < Ottoman Turkish kārvān başı, kervān başı (14th cent. in Old Anatolian Turkish; Turkish kervanbaşı), literally ‘head of the caravan’.] ΚΠ 1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. 290 What are al these foxes..in comparison of that treacherous carauane horde [Fr. carauanne ou horde] of those vermine, openly polluting the holy name of Iesus. 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. i. ii. 7 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) Every Horse and every Camel paying to the Caravan-Master [Fr. Caravan-bachi] a certain Duty. 1799 J. Taylor Trav. Eng. to India I. 264 I again wrote to Mr. Manesty for a conveyance for our baggage, as the caravan camels could proceed no further than Zebeer. 1844 J. C. Frémont Rep. 5–9 May in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I. 689 The caravan road was lost and scattered in the sandy country. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 387 The ravages of this disease amongst the half-starved and overworked gangs of caravan porters have already been described. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 31 Various caravan routes. 1910 W. S. Davis Infl. Wealth in Imperial Rome i. 1 Their ventures in the Ethiopian caravan trade also were unprofitable. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) xi. 136 The caravan traders of ancient Ghana, engaged above all in the exchange of desert salt and savanna grain. 2000 Explore Worldwide Brochure 2001/2002 76/3 We stay in the lakeshore town of Xizhou to explore the Dali area—an ancient trading centre on the old caravan route to Burma and India. < as lemmas |
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