核心畫面

Picture the bags you carry in from a weekly shop: rice, eggs, washing-up liquid, milk. The word covers those everyday household supplies — and, in the singular, the shop you bought them from.

可以想成:每週採買後提回家的那幾袋東西——米、蛋、洗碗精、牛奶。這個字指的就是這些日常的家用補給;而用單數時,它指的更多收起可以想成:每週採買後提回家的那幾袋東西——米、蛋、洗碗精、牛奶。這個字指的就是這些日常的家用補給;而用單數時,它指的是賣這些東西的那家店。

From the picture

賣這些東西的店

從貨品移到賣貨的地方:專賣這些日常補給的店。

grocery store · noun · A2

a shop that sells food and other things for the home; in American English often used to mean a supermarket.

超市;食品店

Also in this word

groceries · noun · A2

food and other everyday goods that you buy from a supermarket or food shop.

食品雜貨

原始詞典資料4 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。

grocerynoun/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/

  • 1

    Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

    • 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
  • 2

    A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

    • 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...

groceryverb/ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/

  • 1

    To go grocery shopping.

    • We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.
    • The thought of grocerying so casually at Seessel's evokes a giggle from Shirley
  • 2

    To furnish with groceries.

    • Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people
    • What freedom to be iced, fueled, and groceried for two weeks and running toward a reef you truly love

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。