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Retailing is the business of selling goods to ordinary customers in shops — and now also in online shops — rather than selling huge amounts to other businesses. The person who walks in to buy a shirt, a phone, or a bag of rice is a retail customer; the shop is doing retailing.
Retailing零售業(retailing) is the business of selling goods to ordinary customers in shops是把商品賣給店裡一般顧客的生意 and now also in online shops現在也包括在網路商店裡 rather than selling huge amounts to other businesses而不是把大量商品賣給其他企業 The person who walks in to buy a shirt, a phone, or a bag of rice走進來買一件襯衫、一支手機、或一包米的人 is a retail customer就是retail customer（零售顧客） the shop is doing retailing那家店做的就是retailing（零售）
The other side is wholesale: selling in bulk to shops, not to the person who will use the thing.
The other side is wholesale另一邊則是wholesale（批發） selling in bulk to shops把商品大量賣給店家 not to the person who will use the thing而不是賣給真正會使用這樣東西的人
You study retailing at business school; job ads and newspapers talk about the retailing industry. The word is simply the -ing name of that trade.
You study retailing at business school你會在商學院裡讀到retailing job ads and newspapers talk about the retailing industry求職廣告和報紙也會談到retailing industry（零售業） The word is simply這個字就只是 the -ing name of that trade那個行業的-ing名詞形式而已
It is a business word, not a kitchen word; at home you just say selling in shops.
It is a business word這是個商業用語 not a kitchen word不是廚房裡會說的字 at home you just say selling in shops在家裡你就直接說selling in shops（在店裡賣東西）就好
Though actually, an older use of retail as a verb was “to tell a story in bits,” like handing out news in small pieces, but that is not the meaning you will meet in class or in a shop.
Though actually不過其實 an older use of retail as a verb was "to tell a story in bits,"retail當動詞用的舊用法是「一點一點地講一個故事」 like handing out news in small pieces就像把消息一小段一小段地傳出去 but that is not the meaning you will meet in class or in a shop但那不是你在課堂上或店裡會遇到的意思
原始詞典資料2 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。
retailingnoun/ˈɹiːteɪliŋ/
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The business of selling directly to the consumer; retail.
- It is not without interest to observe in those remote times, and under a social system so widely different from the modern, the same small causes that ruffle and interrupt the "course of love," which operate so commonly at this day; -- the same inventive jealousy, the same cunning slander, the same crafty and fabricated retailings of petty gossip, which so often now suffice to break the ties of the truest love, and counteract the tenor of circumstances most apparently propitious.
- Where abundance is a point, rather than fine fruit for retailings, as in some districts in the South, seedling peaches are preferred to the grafted kinds.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。