Merchants complained that the privileges reserved for Venetian-built and -owned ships were first extended to those Venetians who bought ships from abroad and then to foreign-built and -owned vessels.

商人们抱怨说，为威尼斯人建造和拥有的船只保留的特权首先被扩展到那些从国外购买船只的威尼斯人，然后扩展到外国建造和拥有的船只。

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The new plan seeks to cut costs for merchants, who long have complained that swipe fees are excessive.

新法规目的在于减少商家征收的费用，因为他们也在抱怨过度的刷卡费。

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When the governor of Jakarta announced that he would enforce the ban on presents during Hari Raya, Indonesia's biggest holiday, local merchants complained that he was putting them out of business.

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Merchants have complained bitterly about Visa and MasterCard's rising costs of accepting plastic, particularly as a growing number of U.S. consumers use credit cards and debit cards for purchases.

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It is unquestioningly accepted at home and widely used beyond the euro area's borders. (Several countries, including Montenegro and Kosovo, use the euro as their currency without formally belonging to the euro zone.) The switch from old currency to new went remarkably smoothly, though consumers in many countries complained, perhaps predictably, that they were charged higher prices as merchants rounded up to new price-points in euros.

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