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
- 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 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。 - We walked to a corner malt shop and sat down on a couple of swiveling stools while we enjoyed our drinks.
我们走到了一个拐角处的一间麦芽店,坐在两个转动椅上喝着我们的饮料。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。