音标:英 /ˈsuːpəmɑːkɪt/,美 /ˈsuːpərmɑːrkɪt/
词性:名词(n.)
核心含义:指规模较大、采用自助服务模式的零售商店,主要销售食品、日用品等家庭生活必需品,通常设有多个分类货架和集中收银台。其名称由前缀“super-”(超级的)和词根“market”(市场)组合而成,强调“一站式购足”的便利性。
用法特点:
可数名词,复数形式为 supermarkets。
可与形容词搭配描述类型(如 big supermarket 大型超市),或与名词构成行业术语(如 supermarket chain 连锁超市)。
big supermarket 大型超市
supermarket chain 连锁超市(如沃尔玛、华润万家)
discounter supermarket 折扣超市
stockroom-style supermarket 仓储式超市(如山姆会员店)
I do a weekly shop at the supermarket.(我每周去超市采购一次。)
The supermarket is just in the corner of the street.(超市就在街角。)
We stopped by a supermarket on the way here.(我们来的路上顺便去了一家超市。)
As it bulks up in financial services, that may give Britain's largest supermarket chain an edge over traditional insurers.(随着其金融服务业务的扩张,这家英国最大的连锁超市可能比传统保险公司更具优势。)
A girl in care, Nina, is spotted by a French woman who believes her to be her baby, stolen years before from a supermarket trolley.(一名被收养的女孩尼娜被一位法国女士认出,她坚信尼娜是多年前在超市手推车里被偷走的女儿。)
"It is a bit of an ordeal to go to the supermarket because the veg is usually right by the door," she said.(她说:“去超市有点麻烦,因为蔬菜通常就在门边。”)
If successful, it would be the first supermarket to do so.(如果成功,它将成为第一家这样做的超市。)
He openly shoplifted from a supermarket.(他在一家超市公然行窃。)
There's a supermarket next to the hotel.(酒店旁边有一家超市。)
I need to hit the supermarket and the bank to run some errands.(我需要去超市和银行办点事。)
从街角的便利店到跨国连锁巨头,supermarket已成为现代生活的基础设施。下次看到货架上的商品时,不妨留意它如何体现“自助服务”与“规模化零售”的商业逻辑——这或许就是这个词背后隐藏的社会变迁