carriage trade
运输业,运输贸易,运输行业,运输交易
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- : wealthy patrons of a store, restaurant, theater, etc.; elite clientele.
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Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
The Canterbury Tales was, Strohm writes, “one of the volumes around which the new trade would organize itself.”
There was really only one good reason to maintain the embargo: Trade with Cuba strengthens the Castros.
He replied that he had no objections, provided she did not encumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his utter abhorrence.
A gentleman got out of a carriage before it stopped, and fell between the rail and the platform.
"She did not think so:" why should she have taken the trouble to look out of the carriage window at me as she said these words?
"God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.
Liszt and his titled friends travelled in a first class carriage by themselves.