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

• Friends of mine, husband and wife, once argued over the price of a branded packet of lemon slices bought at some convenient corner shop or petrol station.
  有一次，我朋友俩口子围绕在街边便利店或加油站购买的一包品牌柠檬片价格展开了争论。
• I bought a pack of green tea in the corner shop.
  我在住宅区附近的小卖铺买了一包绿茶。
• 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。
• She can cash it at the corner sweet shop.
  她就可以在街角的糖果店兑现了。
• We prefer the small corner shop to the large supermarket.
  与大型超级市场相比，我们更喜欢那家拐角小商店。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop.
  啊，对，在一条街的拐角上，我想起那铺子了。