You have merchants and traders who are handling the commerce on the trade routes and enjoying broader cultural contacts.

这里有商人和交易员，他们负责贸易商业,在通商道路上，并且进行广泛的文化交流。

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About two-thirds of those went by outright sale, by financial speculation, in now a growing huge American business of the domestic slave trade.

大约有三分之二的人都被,金融投机所买断,被投入一个日益庞大的,国内奴隶贸易的美国商业市场

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He tries not only to copy European absolutism, but to open up Russia to commerce, realizing that trade meant wealth and that wealth meant improvements in the lives of the Russian people.

他不仅试图仿效欧洲的绝对主义,也开放了俄国的商业贸易,他意识到贸易意味着财富,而财富则等同于俄国民众生活水平的提高

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