英语词汇country pay的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

country pay. Trading in early American country stores was often conducted by barter, or country pay, as it was called, with customers exchanging corn, wheat, rye, and flax, or articles of household manufacture like blankets and baskets for goods on the merchant’s shelves. Homemade Indian brooms, maple syr- up, aphrodisiac ginseng (sold in China), barrel staves, dried fruits, the potash and charcoal left when forests were burned down to clear land, even Indian wampum—all these and a hundred other things were used as country pay.

词汇	country pay
词源	country pay. Trading in early American country stores was often conducted by barter, or country pay, as it was called, with customers exchanging corn, wheat, rye, and flax, or articles of household manufacture like blankets and baskets for goods on the merchant’s shelves. Homemade Indian brooms, maple syr- up, aphrodisiac ginseng (sold in China), barrel staves, dried fruits, the potash and charcoal left when forests were burned down to clear land, even Indian wampum—all these and a hundred other things were used as country pay.
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