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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You get a much bigger choice of things at a supermarket than you do at the local corner shop.
  你在超市比在当地街头小店购物选择的范围大得多。