| 单词 | shop |
| 释义 | shop (ʃɒp ) Word forms: shops , shopping , shopped 1. countable noun A1 A shop is a building or part of a building where things are sold. [mainly British] ...health-food shops. ...a record shop. It's not available in the shops. Synonyms: store, market, supermarket, mart 2. verb B1+ When you shop, you go to shops and buy things. He always shopped at the Co-op. [VERB preposition/adverb] ...some advice that's worth bearing in mind when shopping for a new carpet. [VERB preposition/adverb] ...customers who shop once a week. [VERB] Synonyms: go shopping, buy things, do the shopping, go to the shops shopper Word forms: shoppers countable noun ...crowds of Christmas shoppers. Synonyms: buyer, customer, client, purchaser 3. countable noun [usually singular] A shop is an occasion when you shop for food and other necessities. [British] There is barely money left to cover our weekly shop. Do one big shop and stick to it. 4. countable noun [noun NOUN] A1 You can refer to a place where a particular service is offered as a particular type of shop. ...the barber shop where Rodney sometimes had his hair cut. ...betting shops. ...your local pet shop. 5. countable noun [noun NOUN] You can refer to a place where things are made or done as a particular kind of shop. ...the blacksmith's shop. ...a repair shop. 6. verb If you shop someone, you report them to the police for doing something illegal. [British, informal] His appalled family shopped him to the police. [VERB noun + to] Fraudsters are often shopped by honest friends and neighbours. [be VERB-ed] Synonyms: betray, grass on [British, slang], inform on or against, sell out [informal] 7. See also shopping, chip shop, coffee shop, corner shop, paper shop, pawn shop, print shop, sex shop, talking shop, tea shop, thrift shop 8. all over the shop phrase If something is happening all over the shop, it is happening in many different places or throughout a wide area. [British, informal] This gave them the freedom to make trouble all over the shop without fear of retribution. Synonyms: everywhere, all over, all around, the world over 9. set up shop phrase If you set up shop, you start a business. He set up shop as an independent PR consultant. He has just set up shop in Cherbourg. 10. shop till you drop phrase If you shop till you drop, you do a large amount of shopping. You can use your card in cash machines, or to shop till you drop. 11. shut up shop phrase [VERB inflects] When a shop, office, or firm shuts up shop, it stops doing business and closes, either at the end of the day or permanently. [British] If they had been faced with the bill they'd have shut up shop and fled the country. Synonyms: close down, shut down, cease trading, wind up a business 12. to talk shop phrase If you say that people are talking shop, you mean that they are talking about their work, and this is boring for other people who do not do the same work. If you hang around with colleagues all the time you just end up talking shop. 13. a bull in a china shop phrase [usu like PHR] You say that someone is like a bull in a china shop when they are very clumsy. Phrasal verbs: shop around phrasal verb If you shop around, you go to different shops or companies in order to compare the prices and quality of goods or services before you decide to buy them. Prices may vary so it's well worth shopping around before you buy. [VERB PARTICLE] He shopped around for a firm that would be flexible. [VERB PARTICLE + for] Idioms: a bull in a china shop someone who says or does things which offend or upset people in situations where they should be more careful In confrontational situations I am like a bull in a china shop. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers all over the shop [British] spread across a large area or over a wide range of things. The usual American expression is all over the lot. When the pipe in the kitchen burst this morning, it sprayed water all over the shop. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers shut up shop [British] or close up shop to be forced to close your business, for example because of difficult economic conditions Unless business picks up soon, some of the 245 foreign-owned banks in Switzerland may have to shut up shop. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a talking shop [mainly British] something such as a conference or an organization where discussions have no practical results There are critics who say the annual get-together is nothing more than a talking shop, designed to make those who attend to feel important but makes little difference to those outside of its privileged boundaries. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers talk shop to talk about work to other people who do the same type of work, in a way that is boring for other people to hear Although I get on well with my colleagues, if you hang around together all the time you just end up talking shop, which gets boring. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: empty shop Empty shops could also become much-needed homes, revitalise flagging retail precincts and ease pressure on green belt land. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Ministers were urged to draw up new uses for town centres as a grim report showed the growing number of empty shops. The Sun (2012) Councils only have themselves to blame for empty shops. The Sun (2013) You have to start with one high street shop and understand its inner workings before you build a thousand. Times, Sunday Times I don't often spurn a high street shop for a supermarket, but with fish it's wise. Times, Sunday Times High street shop prices will soar as firms pass on higher production costs to customers. The Sun He was appointed photographer-in-residence, and soon large-scale blow-up images started appearing in high street shop windows and tower blocks. Times, Sunday Times Customers can't be bothered to trudge to a high street shop when they can download movies on the internet in seconds. Times, Sunday Times But second, it's also important because it shows that the independent shops are driving new trends in coffee consumption. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The High Street has some good independent shops and the main beach is a fine stretch of sand. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The town is tucked neatly between red sandstone cliffs with a cluster of independent shops padding out its centre. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The weekly supermarket shop seemed such a good idea at the time: liberating and labour-saving. Times, Sunday Times Recession looms, money grows tight: it pays to spend wisely, and not just on the supermarket shop. Times, Sunday Times You won't be getting reception in two out of three places, so you can forget about micro-managing the supermarket shop or co-ordinating a meeting place. Times,Sunday Times Approximately 12 million customers a week shop at the supermarket. Times, Sunday Times Snap up this lemony layer on your next supermarket shop. The Sun Communities will be allowed to decide to get rid of eyesores like old shop signs and billboards. The Sun We begin with some shop signs: a lovely golden wall full of giant padlocks, smiling suns, extra-large top hats and extra-extra-large workmen's boots. Times, Sunday Times They are alight with colours: cinema screens, shop signs, flickering neon lights. Times, Sunday Times Pedants, already exasperated by shop signs around the country, might have hoped that a bookseller courting literate customers would be the last bastion of correct apostrophe use. Times, Sunday Times The local stores all had different shop signs for the day. Times, Sunday Times The shop stocks more than 700 products free of ingredients such as gluten and dairy. Times, Sunday Times Each shop stocks up to 4,000 product lines, so customers can get a bargain on anything from pet food and cosmetics to confectionery and toys. Times, Sunday Times The shop stocks a wide range of gifts and souvenirs, from real fossils at 1 to soft toys and hand-painted models that cost hundreds of pounds. Times, Sunday Times The museum shop stocks a selection of books, postcards, models and souvenirs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The gift shop stocks a range of natural history books, dinosaur replicas, toys, fossils, crystals, minerals and meteorites. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At eighteen he joined his parents in the small grocery shop they then ran; with some savings and a year's pay he opened a second shop. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006) Most of the retail establishments were small, unpleasant shops which carried a wide range of goods. A Social History of Modern Spain (1991) Our good small shops are disappearing fast. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Pictures from the scene showed the blackened façade of a tourist shop. Times, Sunday Times A trinket for a dollar or two at the tourist shop? Globe and Mail Then weirdly there was a tourist shop selling tat. Times, Sunday Times I went into an upmarket tourist shop and demanded shahtoosh. Times, Sunday Times The homestead was used as a tourist shop in the 1970s and later became a bed and breakfast; however, it was eventually vacated. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Real shops, too: butchers, bakers, bookshops, and even a toy shop. Times, Sunday Times The boss of the country's biggest independent toy shop has said new ranges could be cancelled if the disruption caused by coronavirus persists. Times,Sunday Times One minute film, the next fashion, his last venture in 2007 - 'just for fun' - was a toy shop. Times, Sunday Times But the multi-awardwinning performer didn't stop buying once he left the toy shop. The Sun It's so much more than just a toy shop. The Sun Facilities are minimal but sufficient: there's a cosy bar, a village shop and a good pizza restaurant. Times, Sunday Times (2010) My father just drove off as if he was going down to the village shop. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The village shop is a focal point for a chat and gossip. The Sun (2015) There is also a bakery and wine shop, so you can purchase goodies too. Times, Sunday Times (2012) But the organisers failed to sell enough tickets and he was forced to put the wine shop into voluntary liquidation. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Translations: Chinese: 商店 Japanese: 店 |
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