mail-order
mail-order — 名詞
1. a method of shopping where you pick items from a catalogue or advert and ask for
郵購
透過郵寄訂購商品的方式
a method of shopping where you pick items from a catalogue or advert and ask for them to be sent by post.
Sari bought school shoes by mail order from a shop in Tainan.
Sari 透過郵購向台南的一家店買了學校要穿的鞋子。
pattern: buy something by mail order
Arjun's grandfather still prefers mail order for vegetable seeds and bulbs.
Arjun 的祖父現在仍偏好用郵購買蔬菜種子和球根。
common context: catalogues for household or garden goods
The museum sold replica posters through mail order before opening its web store.
那家博物館在開設網路商店前，先透過郵購販售複製海報。
Ramón built a small tea business that depended on mail order.
Ramón 靠郵購建立起一家小型茶葉生意。
During winter storms, Adisa relied on mail order for baby formula.
冬季暴風雪來時，Adisa 得靠郵購買嬰兒配方奶粉。
- catalogue shopping
stresses choosing from a printed product list rather than the postal step itself
- shopping by post
plain paraphrase that keeps the older postal sense of the term
- in-store shopping
buying goods by going to a physical shop instead of ordering from home
- online shopping
the modern internet-based equivalent; mail order usually suggests catalogues or postal forms
文法句型
buy something by mail order
sell something through mail order
用法筆記
Usually follows 'by' or 'through': buy something by mail order. It often refers to catalogue-based shopping from before online checkout became normal.