For the past three weeks we have been in a Russian trading post on the Aleutian islands. 在过去的三个星期里,我们一直呆在阿留申群岛上一个俄国人的贸易站里。
New York was originally a Dutch trading post. 纽约原来是荷兰人的贸易站。
It was a big trading post up north. 那是位于北方的一个很大的商栈。
In1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, a British East India Company official, made a treaty with the Sultan of Johore and established Singapore as a trading post and settlement. 1819年,托马斯・史丹福・莱佛士(SirThomasStamfordRaffles),一名英国东印度公司的官员,和柔佛苏丹签定一项条约,将新加坡作为一个贸易局和殖民点。