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

• 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。
• A particular kind of walking. Not the distance between porch and corner shop. But a more aimless pursuit.
  一种特殊的行走方式，不是从家门口走到街角的商店，而是一种漫无目的的行动。
• 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。
• The corner shop is convenient if you forget to get something in town, although you pay through the nose for anything you buy there.
  如果你在镇上忘了买什么，在这个拐角商店里可非常方便地买到，不过价钱要贵很多。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She can cash it at the corner sweet shop.
  她就可以在街角的糖果店兑现了。
• 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。
• 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。