commerce

The word commerce /ˈkɔmə:s/ has been derived from the Latin word commercium, from com ("together") and merx ("merchandise").

Commerce is the exchange of goods and services, especially on a large scale.

E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet.

commercial  /kəˈmə:ʃəl/ 1. commerce的形容词；2. n. 广告

Several ships have been named Commerce. 专有名词(proper noun)的首字母大写。

“宇宙号”是中国自主研制建造的集装箱船，2018年在上海交付。它由中国船舶集团有限公司(China State Shipbuilding Corporation, CSSC)为中国远洋运输有限公司(China Ocean Shipping Company Limited, COSCO)建造。它长400米，宽58.6米，满载排水量20万吨，最大载重量19.8万吨，可装载21237个标准集装箱。最大速度22knot[节]. A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. Historically, it was defined as the meridian [子午线] arc length corresponding to one minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude. Today the international nautical mile is defined as exactly 1852 metres (6076 ft; 1.151 mi). The derived unit of speed is the knot, one nautical mile per hour. 宇宙系列一共6条船，于2019年交付完毕。上海江南造船厂将继续建造其余5艘21000箱姐妹船。[链接]

• 大连造船厂于1958年建造了我国第一艘万吨远洋货轮
• 江南造船厂于1961年制造了我国第一台万吨水压机
• 刷新世界最大箱船纪录！沪东中华建造超大型箱船出坞

A TEU [twenty-foot equivalent unit, 标(准)箱] is a shipping container whose internal dimensions measure about 20 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 8 feet tall. It can hold between 9 and 11 pallets [托盘], depending on whether they are standard pallets or EUR-pallets. Two TEUs have the capacity of a single FEU [F代表forty]. 1 ft = 0.3048 m，一个TEU是14.86平米x2.44米。

The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road links China's coast to Europe and Africa through the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.

The Belt and Road Initiative, known in Chinese and formerly in English as One Belt One Road or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 70 countries and international organizations. “一带一路”是构建“人类命运共同体”的具体实践。“人类命运共同体”于2018年写入宪法。

• “一带一路”是构建人类命运共同体的具体实践
• “人类命运共同体”写入宪法持续利好“一带一路”
•  “命运共同体”英语怎么说？ a community of common destiny
• What is the difference between mutual and common? OED和LDOCE都提到mutual可用于two or more. In computer programming, a mutual exclusion object (mutex) is a program object that allows multiple program threads to share the same resource, such as file access, but not simultaneously. 
• (OED)  Among is used of people or things considered as a group. Between is used of people or things, either two in number or more than two considered individually. Sheldon Cooper的英语…… :-)

ASEAN /ˈæzin/ Association of South-East Asian Nations 东南亚国家联盟(东盟)。截至2019年，东盟有10个成员国：文莱、柬埔寨、印尼、老挝、马来西亚、菲律宾、新加坡、泰国、缅甸、越南。

The United States Department of Commerce is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with promoting economic growth. Among its tasks are gathering economic and demographic data for business and government decision-making, and helping to set industrial standards. This organization's main purpose is to create jobs, promote economic growth, encourage sustainable development and block harmful trade practices of other nations. The Department of Commerce is headquartered in the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, DC. The department was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903. It was subsequently renamed the Department of Commerce on March 4, 1913, as the bureaus and agencies specializing in labor were transferred to the new Department of Labor.

六级/考研单词: commerce, derive, merchandise, electron, offline, marine, navigate, arc, correspond, latitude, knot, equivalent, dimension, maritime, silk, globe, infrastructure, invest, unite, demographic, data, sustain, march, bureau

e-business and e-commerce