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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• She rarely ventured outside, except when she went to stock up on groceries at the corner shop.
  她很难得冒险外出，除非要去街角商店置办食品杂货。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。