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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Street food culture is a way of living in Malaysia. You can buy string, glue, paper-clips and suchlike ( items) at the corner shop.
  对自小在马来西亚长大的我，街边小食是生活中很重要的一部分。在街角小店里可以买到细绳、胶水、回形针之类的东西。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。