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free trader 自由貿易主義者;〔廢語〕走私者。

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The outflow of silver became more marked from 1834 , after the east india company lost its monopoly of the china trade , and the foreign free traders , hoping to get rich quickly , joined the lucrative opium trade which the chinese had made illegal in 1799 清廷早于一七九九年明令禁止輸入鴉片,但自一八三四年東印度公司喪失與中國貿易的特權后,外商為圖暴利,竟加入鴉片商販行列,使中國銀元外流的情況,更趨嚴重。