grocery
英 ['grəʊs(ə)rɪ]
美 ['ɡrosəri]
英文詞源
- grocery (n.)
- mid-15c., "goods sold by a grocer;" earlier the name of the Grocer's Hall in London (early 15c.), from Old French grosserie, from grossier "wholesale merchant" (see grocer). Meaning "a grocer's shop" is by 1803, especially in American English, where its use in that sense restricted the "goods sold by a grocer" meaning to the plural, groceries, by mid-19c.
GROCERY. A grocer's shop. This word is not in the English dictionaries except in the sense of grocer's ware, such as tea, sugar, spice, etc.; in which sense we also use it in the plural. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]
Self-service groceries were a novelty in 1913 when a Montana, U.S., firm copyrighted the word groceteria (with the ending from cafeteria used in an un-etymological sense) to name them. The term existed through the 1920s.
雙語例句
- 1. I worked stocking shelves in a grocery store.
- 我在一家雜貨店工作，負責為貨架上貨。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was employed at the local grocery store as a delivery boy.
- 他受雇於當地雜貨店當送貨員.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Grocery stores sell many foods that have been processed.
- 食品雜貨店出售多種加工食品.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. There hangs straight on the wall of this grocery a service pledge.
- 這家副食店在牆上端端正正掛著一張服務公約.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 5. Her mother began operation of a small grocery.
- 她母親開始經營一家小雜貨店.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》