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

• Our little corner shop is no longer a paying concern, ie is no longer profitable.
  我们这个街头小店已赚不到钱了。
• 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。
• Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop.
  啊，对，在一条街的拐角上，我想起那铺子了。
• Friends of mine, husband and wife, once argued over the price of a branded packet of lemon slices bought at some convenient corner shop or petrol station.
  有一次，我朋友俩口子围绕在街边便利店或加油站购买的一包品牌柠檬片价格展开了争论。
• 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。
• 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。
• You can buy string, glue, paper-clips and suchlike items at the corner shop.
  在街角小店里可以买到细绳、胶水、回形针之类的东西。
• 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。
• I bought a pack of green tea in the corner shop.
  我在住宅区附近的小卖铺买了一包绿茶。