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
- 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。 - She can cash it at the corner sweet shop.
她就可以在街角的糖果店兑现了。 - 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。 - The corner shop owner knew who liked a particular brand of jam and kept it in stock for them.
街角小店的店主知道哪些顾客喜欢某个特定品牌的果酱,因此会为他们留一些货。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - State lawmakers in2009 altered existing liquor laws in a way that lessened the financial burden on small distilleries, paving the way for the Dark Corner Distillery to set up shop.
2009年州立法部修改了酿酒法,减轻了小型酿酒作坊的财务负担,也为暗角酿酒坊的实现扫清了道路。 - I'll just pop my coat on and go to the corner shop.
我很快地穿上外套,前往那拐角上的商店。
