This commercial city was busy and wealthy about 2,000 years ago.

大约2000年前，这座商业小城曾经忙碌过、富庶过。

From Vancouver to Yokohama, the chief commercial city of Japan, it is now a sail of ten days.

从温哥华前往日本的主要商城——横滨现今有10天的航程。

If there are any merchants among them, they are, properly, only the agents of wealthier merchants who reside in some of the great commercial cities.

如果他们中间有商人的话，他们也只是居住在一些大商业城市的富有商人的代理人。