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An emporium is a large shop, often one that sells many kinds of goods, or that wants to sound grand. Older English used it for a big trading hall or a busy market town; that matches the Greek story of a stop on a merchant’s journey.
An emporium emporium is a large shop,是一種大商店 often one that sells many kinds of goods,常常是賣很多種東西的那種 or that wants to sound grand.或是想聽起來很氣派的那種。 Older English used it比較舊的英文會用它 for a big trading hall or a busy market town;指一個大型的交易廳，或熱鬧的市集小鎮； that matches the Greek story這跟希臘字源的故事相符 of a stop on a merchant's journey.就是商人旅途中的一個停靠站。
Today it can feel slightly old-fashioned, or a little — “a sneaker emporium” for a big, busy shoe shop putting on airs. Young people do not use it for the corner store.
Today it can feel slightly old-fashioned,現在這個字可能聽起來有點老派 or a little jokey或有點好笑 — "a sneaker emporium"──像「a sneaker emporium」 for a big, busy shoe shop putting on airs.用來說一間裝得很氣派、生意很好的鞋店。 Young people do not use it年輕人不會用這個字 for the corner store.來說巷口的小商店。
Though actually, the tidy dictionary says “a large shop,” and real speakers often pick it for flavour, not for size alone: it dresses the shop up. It is not related to empire, even though the start looks similar.
Though actually,不過其實 the tidy dictionary says "a large shop,"字典寫得很簡單，只說「一間大商店」 and real speakers often pick it for flavour,但實際講話的人常常是為了那個味道才用它 not for size alone:不只是因為大而已： it dresses the shop up.它會讓那間店聽起來比較體面。 It is not related to empire,它跟empire帝國沒有關係 even though the start looks similar.雖然開頭看起來很像。
組成From Latin emporium, from Greek empórion (“trading station”), from em- (“in”) + póros (“journey / passageway”) + a noun ending. A place you meet while still on the road.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Emporiumname
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A borough, the county seat of Cameron County, Pennsylvania, United States.
emporiumnoun/ɛmˈpɔːɹ.i.əm/
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A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.
- Venice a poore fiſhertowne, Paris, London, ſmall Cottages, in Cæſars time, now moſt noble Emporiums.
- And, while this fam'd Emporium we prepare, / The Britiſh Ocean ſhall ſuch triumphs boaſt, / That thoſe who now diſdain our Trade to ſhare, / Shall rob like Pyrats on our wealthy Coaſt.
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A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods.
- With a name like “The Wine and Spirits Emporium”, no wonder the prices are so high.
- Then, as if he wiſhed to convert himſelf into a vaſt emporium of every error, he applied to the doctrines of the modern Sophiſters, and thus plied his unfortunate brain on the one ſide with all the delirious conceits of Cabaliſtic Maſonry, and on the other with the impious doctrines of the ſelf-created Philoſophers.
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historicalA business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).
- The advantages to be enjoyed, and laws conformed to by the men of war of either ſtate, the trade to be carried on in America, the catching of herrings or other fiſh, the ſettling of emporiums, &c. ſhall be adjuſted by a ſpecial treaty.
- On the ſouthern branch is a town called Pipely, where there was formerly an Engliſh factory; but this was removed to Huguley, one hundred and ſixty miles farther up the river; a place which, together with the company's ſettlement at Calcutta, were the emporiums of their commerce for the whole kingdom of Bengal.
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obsoleteThe brain.
- Catalepſy is occaſioned by a Relaxation of the Fibers of the Emporium, which cannot receive the outward Impreſſions, whereby the Soul has its Senſations, and yet give a free Paſſage to the Animal Spirits into all the Parts, whither they may be conveyed independently upon the Will. The Relaxation of the Fibers of the Emporium is occaſioned by a thin Seroſity, which remains in the very Texture of the Fibers, to relax them without leſſening their Cavity, as it happens in the periodical Oedema’s, that are daily obſerved upon ſeveral Parts of the Skin.
- Observing, then that the emporium or brain itself reflects the entire product of all the senses by an impressible power, which, as by a looking-glass, exactly duplicated the external recognizers, or sense apparatus or limbs, it was inferred that the principle of duplication must be the true and exact counterpart to evergency; [...]
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。