Grocer
['grəʊsə] or [ɡrosɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies).
比利校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.
校對:诺艾尔
解釋/意思:
n. a dealer in tea sugar &c.—n. Groc′ery (generally used in pl.) articles sold by grocers.
校對:卢埃林
例句/造句/用法:
- Nothing would serve Maggy but that they must stop at a grocer's window, short of their destination, for her to show her learning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- If all the food we eat were utilized for energy, the housewife could cook less, and the housefather could save money on grocer's and butcher's bills. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- What between the buryin ground, the grocer's, the waggon-stables, and the paunch trade, the Marshalsea flies gets very large. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Saint Antoine slept, the Defarges slept: even The Vengeance slept with her starved grocer, and the drum was at rest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Should you have liked your sister to have been noticed by a grocer's assistant for doing so? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Alvanly used to rail at Meyler for this, as might naturally be expected, calling him a d----d methodistical grocer, &c. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But, Fanny, you will make a point of cutting this grocer, I hope? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In a small sea-port town, a little grocer will make forty or fifty per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We still talk about humanity as if it were some strange and mystical creature which could not possibly be composed of the grocer, the street-car conductor and our aunts. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was the lad who had peached upon him about the grocer's cart; but he bore little malice, not at least towards the young and small. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The self-raising flour, so widely advertised by grocers, is flour in which these ingredients or their equivalent have been mixed by the manufacturer. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- As the essential ingredients of the best baking powder are baking soda and cream of tartar we need only be careful in buying of honest grocers or druggists who will guarantee their purity. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Nobody nowadays had Colonial houses except the millionaire grocers of the suburbs. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I vote for cutting all the grocers and valets who intrude themselves into good society. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- For family or grocers’ use this will prove even more serviceable than some of the high-priced patent refrigerators. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- It is those d-mn grocers, the Mitchels, said Alvanly, who have taught you to dine at these hours! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I do not recollect Mitchel, retorted Alvanly; but I believe there were a good many grocers admitted at that time. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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