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

• 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。
• She can cash it at the corner sweet shop.
  她就可以在街角的糖果店兑现了。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Wayne is always nipping down to the corner shop for him
  韦恩总是一溜烟跑到街角商店找他。