Though active in commerce or the professions, most of the wealthy were not self-made but had inherited family fortunes.

尽管在商业领域或职场活跃着，大多数富人不是白手起家，而是继承了家族财富。

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Chemicals in commerce before the close of 1981 are listed in the EINECS.

1981年底之前的商业化学品已列入《欧洲现有商业化学物质目录》。

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He is engaged in commerce.

他从事商业。

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Just last week,the Commerce Department reported an unexpected drop in December in the number of housing starts by builders.

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They are involved in commerce, some of them, but mostly what they do is they serve the state.

他们有的从事商业,但他们是大多是为国家效力的

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You've got all these guys with dueling scars, and for them to be indulging in commerce is just crass, and not terribly manly, and all this business.

这些人骨子里的传统贵族观念,使得他们认为从商是粗俗的,一点没有男子气概的,以及这种不屑的看法

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The Chinese, feeling themselves more or less self-sufficient in material matters, had less interest in commerce.

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"There are 80, 000 chemicals in commerce, " says California Environmental Protection Agency toxicologist Stephen Dizio.

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Therefore, the individual mandate constitutes the regulation of participation in commerce that is inevitable.

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