She was coming home to Marseilles, France, with a cargo of cloth and dyes.

法老号返回了法国马赛，满匹和染料。

He was in the dry goods business.

那人做匹生意。

We are interested in the piece goods and made-up goods.

我们对匹和纺织成品很感兴趣。

He picked out some piece goods and a picturesque pictorial.

他挑选出一些匹和一幅独特的画报。

Nails, bolts of cloth, tea, and coffee could go or come that way, but not corn and bacon.

钉子、匹、茶和咖啡可以那样进进出出，但玉米和培根不会。

But he hadn't. He'd grown up in Leiden, a textiles and university town about 25 miles southwest of Amsterdam, packed with piety, learning and profit from the cloth trade.

但并非如此，他是在阿姆斯特丹西南25英里的莱顿长大，那里出产纺织品，还有所大学，那里的人们都很虔诚好学，匹贸易为他们带来了收益。

They had dozens of warehouses in that city and in Richmond, so the story ran, and the warehouses were crammed with food and clothing that were being held for higher prices.

据说他们在那个城市和里士满有好几十家货栈，里面堆满了食品、匹，等高价出售。

There was a semblance of order in the front of the store, where tall shelves rose into the gloom stacked with bright bolts of cloth, china, cooking utensils and notions.

店里的前头一部分似乎整齐些，阴暗一些很高的货架，堆满了色彩鲜艳的匹、瓷器、烹饪器皿和零碎日用品等。

One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message.

有一个卖紫色匹的妇人，名叫吕底亚，是推雅推喇城的人，素来敬拜　神。她听见了，主就开导她的心，叫她留心听保罗所讲的话。

They were architecturally complex places, housing a great variety of activities, one of them the administration of trade and produce, organising the large population of skilled artisans who wove cloth and worked the imported gold, ivory and bronze.

它们的建筑结构复杂，能举办多种活动, 如贸易与生产管理: 把大量编织匹与加工进口黄金、象牙、青铜的手工艺人组织起来。有这些技术精湛的手工艺人，就不会有这尊雕像的诞生。