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A big-box store is a huge shop, often a warehouse-like building with a wide car park, usually on the edge of a town rather than in the old high street. From the road it can look like a giant box. They sell a lot of one kind of thing — food, furniture, tools — at low prices, and they pull out of the town centre. The phrase is mainly American; British English might say out-of-town . It belongs to news, planning, and shopping talk. People also say big-box retailer for the company, not only the building.
大型量販店、大賣場（郊區倉庫式建築；台灣的好市多、家樂福量販就是這一類）
組成big + box: the building looks like an oversized box. Informal compound.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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Of or relating to a very large retail establishment built as a massive, free-standing structure.
- Big-box retailers like Wal-Mart have driven local mom-and-pop stores out of business.
- Crisscrossing the United States on an epic World Cup road trip, the pseudonymous soccer fan posted about the beauty of big-box chain stores and gas stations, projecting an infectious enthusiasm for American mass culture.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。