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。 - 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。 - I have a letter from the people who used to own the corner shop.
我收到从前街角那家商店的老板寄来的一封信。 - 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。 - 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。 - He's gone down to the corner shop to get some milk.
他到街角的那家商店去买牛奶。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。