核心畫面
You can picture 'shopping' as the whole act of going round the shops to buy things — walking in, picking items, paying. From that one activity, the word also stretches to the routine version of it, and even to the bag of things you carry home.
可以想成：shopping 就是「逛店買東西」這整件事——走進店裡、挑東西、付錢。從這個活動出發，這個字也延伸到它的…更多收起
可以想成：shopping 就是「逛店買東西」這整件事——走進店裡、挑東西、付錢。從這個活動出發，這個字也延伸到它的日常版本（固定的採買），甚至延伸到你提回家的那一袋戰利品。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。
shoppingnoun/ˈʃɒpɪŋ/
- 1
The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
- On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.
- After a hard day's shopping, they had come home laden with bargains, and the dressing-room was strewed with Indian fans, ivory boxes, and lace.
- 2
Recently bought goods.
- I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.
- 3
An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
- Boston has good shopping.
- 4
Placement in a workshop for overhaul.
- The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.
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。