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/ˈʃɑːpˌkiːpər/ · /ˈʃɒpˌkiːpə/
Someone who owns a small shop, or who is in charge of running it — the person who decides what the shop sells, orders the goods, and opens and closes it each day.
店主；小店老闆
複數 shopkeepers
核心畫面
shop + keep — the person who keeps a shop: holds it, tends it, keeps it running. Picture a small corner store where one person opens it in the morning, decides what goes on the shelves, and locks up at night.
一個字面上的組合：shop（店）＋ keep（看守、守著、維持著不讓它散掉）。keep 這個動作比較像「把某樣東西留…更多收起
一個字面上的組合：shop（店）＋ keep（看守、守著、維持著不讓它散掉）。keep 這個動作比較像「把某樣東西留在手上、照顧著、讓它一直運作下去」——所以 shopkeeper 就是那個守著一間店的人。想像一條老街上的雜貨店，早上是他把鐵門拉起來、晚上是他把燈關掉；架上少了什麼是他去補、賣什麼由他決定。這個字帶著「小店」的尺度感：不是連鎖超市的店長，而是店幾乎等於這個人的那種店。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。
shopkeepernoun/ˈʃɒpkiːpə/
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A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail, in distinction from one who sells by wholesale, or sells door to door.
- The retail trade of the borough also suffered, for the shopkeepers found it difficult to attract the occupiers of the luxurious villas fast rising on Surbiton Hill, and the shops erected near the station [in Surbiton] made the competition still more keen.
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。