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。 - 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。 - You get a much bigger choice of things at a supermarket than you do at the local corner shop.
你在超市比在当地街头小店购物选择的范围大得多。 - Imagine a corner shop that is not doing well. At best it cannot provide its owner with a minimum standard of living. At worst it cannot even cover its costs and is kept going by loans and donations from relations, friends and well-wishers.
假设一家街角小店生意不好,那么最好的情况是,它只是无法帮店主满足最低生活标准,而最糟糕的情况是,它入不敷出,只能靠贷款以及亲戚朋友和好心人的捐助运营。 - The icing on the cake came last year, when Forgas published perhaps his most intriguing study to date, one that took place in a corner shop not far from his office on the campus of the University of New South Wales.
点睛之笔来自福加斯去年发表的研究报告。这项或许是他迄今最令人感兴趣的研究,是在一家街头小店展开的,离他在新南威尔士大学校园里的办公室不远。 - It is not a difficult trade to learn and the large chain-stores can never force the small bookseller out of existence as they have done to the corner shop.
学习不是一个困难的贸易,而且当他们已经做到角落商店的时候,大的连锁商店能由于存在不再强迫小的书商。 - Street food culture is a way of living in Malaysia. You can buy string, glue, paper-clips and suchlike ( items) at the corner shop.
对自小在马来西亚长大的我,街边小食是生活中很重要的一部分。在街角小店里可以买到细绳、胶水、回形针之类的东西。 - 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。 - 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。 - The customer was on the telephone in the corner of the shop.
那名客人正在店里的角落讲电话。
