corner shop
英 [ˈkɔːnə ʃɒp]
美 [ˈkɔːrnər ʃɑːp]
n. (尤指住宅区附近的)小商店,街头小店
牛津词典
noun
- (尤指住宅区附近的)小商店,街头小店
a small shop that sells food, newspapers, cigarettes, etc., especially one near people's houses
柯林斯词典
- 街头小店;小商店
Acorner shopis a small shop, usually on the corner of a street, that sells mainly food and household goods.
in AM, use 美国英语用 corner store
双语例句
- She can cash it at the corner sweet shop.
她就可以在街角的糖果店兑现了。 - Wayne is always nipping down to the corner shop for him
韦恩总是一溜烟跑到街角商店找他。 - They live in a remote corner of scotland, miles from the nearest shop.
他们住在苏格兰的一个偏僻的角落,离最近的商店也要好几英里。 - They all looked at a big and noisy machine in another corner of the machine shop.
他们全都看着机械车间另一角落的一台又大又嘈杂的机器。那台机器发出许多噪音。 - He sees government finances as akin to those of a corner shop whose outgoings must not exceed its incomings – the difference being that cost-cutting by the shopkeeper is unlikely to affect the prosperity of his customers.
在他看来,政府就像某个街角小商店一样,支出绝不能超过收入。二者的区别就在于,商店老板削减成本,不大可能会影响顾客们的荷包。 - At a corner of Sixth Avenue he saw a brightly-lit shop window.
在第六大街的拐角处,他看到了个灯火通明的橱窗。 - We walked to a corner malt shop and sat down on a couple of swiveling stools while we enjoyed our drinks.
我们走到了一个拐角处的一间麦芽店,坐在两个转动椅上喝着我们的饮料。 - We prefer the small corner shop to the large supermarket.
与大型超级市场相比,我们更喜欢那家拐角小商店。 - The lesson from Britain is that once the debate about Europe is framed in terms of entries in the ledger of a corner shop, the battle is lost.
来自英国的教训是,一旦用小店式的斤斤计较来框定关于欧洲的辩论,这场战斗就输了。 - She rarely ventured outside, except when she went to stock up on groceries at the corner shop.
她很难得冒险外出,除非要去街角商店置办食品杂货。