So they wrote about contemporary merchants and tradesmen instead of ancient nobles and gods.

所以他们笔下的人物都是当代的商人 而不是古代的贵族和神。

Now Tom is a tradesman and tradesmen work in trades.

那么Tom 是个技工，从事于贸易。

The tradesman was put to his trade and the artisan to his calling.

商人仍然商，工人照旧作工。

Shopping on credit and driving electric cars and hiring tradesmen to change a lightbulb.

信用卡消费，开电动车，换个电灯泡都得雇人。

We've had some trouble with a tradesman.

我们跟个零售商有纠葛。

But it was evidently of the tradesmen she was speaking and not of the Driffields.

不过她主要在讲的显然是那些店铺老板，而不是德里菲尔德夫妇。

I then alluded to my idea that she might add to her small income by selling tea; and, to my surprise (for I had nearly given up the plan), my father grasped at it with all the energy of a tradesman.

然后我暗示她可以通过卖茶叶来增加薄收入；令我惊讶的是（因为我几乎已放弃了这个划），我父亲用他那商人的全部热情抓住了这个想法。

Many in the middle lack the skills to move up and are pushed towards the low-wage end of the economy. Machinists and tradesmen become cashiers and call-centre workers.

很多中等水平的从业者缺乏提升自身的技术而最终得到较低的报酬，像些机械工程师和零售商，最终却变成了收银员和呼叫中心的工作人员。

Landowners and tradesmen were obliged to stay in their livelihoods so they could not escape their share of the tax burden; in that regard at least Diocletian was an equal opportunity tyrant.

地主和商人都不得改变自己的生机，因而也不能逃脱缴税的重担。在这方面看来，戴克里先至少是个实行机会平等的暴君。

Do you know, they buy my pictures not only in Holland, but in Norway and Sweden and Denmark? It's mostly merchants who buy them, and rich tradesmen.

你知道，不只在荷兰，就是在挪威、瑞典和丹麦也有人买我的画。买画的主要是商人，有钱的生意人。

" We make it a rule, " said Mr. Grant, never to refuse signing the certificate of an honest tradesman, and we have never heard that you were anything else.

“我们立下规则，”格兰特先生说，绝不会拒绝为诚信的商人签署证书，我们从未听说你有什么不可以。

The heroes in these stories were often tradesmen, sailing around the world to establish new trade routes, set up colonies, and bring home exotic goods.

这些故事中的英雄通常是商人，他们在世界各地航行，建立新的贸易路线，建立殖民地，并带回异国情调的商品。

The Vikings then went through a stage of being seen by historians as rather civilised-more tradesmen and travellers than pillagers-in fact they became almost cuddly.

度有考古家认为维京人的文明程度相当高，在本地及外地商的人比海盗多。

The tradesman held up a cloth bag with something moving inside it. He said it was a live pig. The woman asked to see it.

商人就拿起个布袋子，里面似乎装着会动的东西。他说那里有头生猪，妇女想看看。

Many of the tourists on board had begun bargaining with the tradesmen, but I decided not to buy anything until I had disembarked.

船上的许多游客开始同商贩们讨价还价起来，但我打定主意上岸之前什么也不买。

But the tradesman cried out that she was wrong; they knew one another; did he doubt her? What childishness!

可是商人叫了起来，说她这样就不对了；他们是老相识；难道他还信不过她？ 怎么这样小孩子气！

We need a lot more tradesmen, nurses, teachers and laborers than we need so-called elite roles like corporate executives.

我们需要的工匠、护士、教师和劳工比所谓的企业高管等精英角色要多得多。

In scene two. the newly wealthy Tom is surrounded by tradesmen eager to get his money.

第二幕，暴发户汤姆身边围绕着急于得到他的钱的商贩。

Starting with tradie. Now tradie is a tradesman.

从 tradie 开始。Tradie 是建筑工人的意思。

America's housing crisis is in part being accelerated by the cost to build new homes because we don't have enough tradesmen to keep up with the demand for new housing.

美国的住房危机在定程度上是由建造新房的成本加速的，因为我们没有足够的工匠来满足对新住房的需求。