店铺的那些事儿(第一部分)

2014-09-17 14:59阿卡索英语

无论是在中国还是英美,都有各式各样的商铺。这回我们就来学习一下各种店铺用英语怎么说。

1. shop : a building or place where things are sold 商店

备注:英式英语中常用 ''shop'' ,美式英语中常用 '' store ''

例:

a garment shop (衣服店)

She's gone to the shops to get some milk. (她去店里买牛奶。)

Our local store has sold out of sugar for jam-making. (附近店里做酱用的糖都卖光了。)

 

(一)超市、大型店、商场、百货

2. supermarket : a large shop that sells a wide range of things, especially food, cleaning materials, and other things that people buy regularly 超市

备注:美式英语中常用 '' grocery store ''

例:

a supermarket chain (连锁超市)

supermarket coupons (超市优惠券)

They plan to open a new supermarket next year. (他们计划明年开家超市。)

Supermarkets have cut down the number of plastic bags they distribute by 50%. (超市已将塑料袋使用量减少了一半。)

Can you get pine nuts from the grocery store? (你能去超市买点松子回来吗?)

I made a quick trip to the grocery store. (我匆匆去超市买了点东西。)

You make me go grocery shopping. (你让我去超市买东西。)

 

3. superstore : a very large shop that sells a large variety of goods 大型商店

备注: superstore=megastore ,请注意 ''superstore'' ''supermarket'' 的区别

例:

an electronics superstore (大型电子商店)

Out-of-town superstores have taken business away from shops in the city center. (远郊的大型商店把市中心商店的生意都抢走了。)

 

4. mall : a large area where there are a lot of shops, especially a large building 商场

例:

A new restaurant has opened at the mall. (商场里开了家新餐厅。)

We used to hang around together at the mall. (过去,我们常常一起逛商场。)

 

5. department store : a very large shop that is divided into several big parts, each of which sells one type of thing, such as clothes, furniture, or kitchen equipment 百货

例:

He went around all the big department stores on Oxford Street. (牛津街所有百货商店他都逛遍了。)

 

(二)便利店、小店

6. convenience store : a shop in your local area that sells food, alcohol, magazines etc. and is often open 24 hours a day 便利店

备注:这个词常见于美式英语中。

例:

Believe me, if his father wasn't so rich, that guy would be working in a convenience store. (相信我吧,如果那小子他爸不是这么有钱,他可能就得在便利店打工了。)

 

7. corner shop : a small local shop, usually on the corner of a street, that sells food, newspapers, cigarettes etc. 小卖店,小型商店

备注:英式英语中常用 ''corner shop'' ,美式英语中常用 '' corner store ''

例:

The corner shop's started selling sandwiches now, and I'd rather go there than the supermarket. (街角小店也开始卖三明治了,比起去超市买三明治,我更愿意就去那儿买。)

His parents ran a little corner store in the Castro in San Francisco. (他爸妈在旧金山的卡斯特罗市开了家小杂货店。)

 

8. kiosk : a very small shop on a street, that has an open window where you can buy newspapers, cigarettes, chocolate etc. 售卖亭

例:

There must be a kiosk selling phone cards around here somewhere. (附近肯定有卖电话卡的小店。)

 

9. boutique : a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or other usually expensive things 服饰店,小型奢侈品商店

例:

a little boutique which specializes in bath products (专门卖高档洗浴用品的小店)

补充: boutique hotel : a small expensive hotel, decorated in a fashionable way  精品酒店

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