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

• 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。
• She can cash it at the corner sweet shop.
  她就可以在街角的糖果店兑现了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。