stores
/stɔːr/ (bre, ipa) · [stˈɔrz] /stɔːr/ (ame, ipa) · [stˈɔrz] /ˈstȯr How to pronounce store (audio)/ (ame, mw)
stores — 名詞
1. shops where people buy goods or services
商店；店鋪
販售商品或服務的店面
shops where people buy goods or services
The new stores near the station sell shoes, books, and phone cases.
車站附近的新商店賣鞋子、書和手機殼。
plural noun for retail businesses in one area
Several stores on Main Street stayed open late for the holiday sale.
主街上的幾家商店為了節日特賣營業到很晚。
Ziad compared prices at three stores before buying a winter coat.
Ziad 在買冬外套前，比較了三家商店的價格。
Small stores in the neighborhood still offer free delivery by bicycle.
這個社區裡的小店現在仍提供腳踏車免費送貨。
文法句型
stores + sell + goods
stores on/in + place
compare prices at stores
用法筆記
This is the broad retail sense. If the shops mainly sell food and household basics, sense 2 is more precise.
常見錯誤
2. food shops that sell groceries and everyday things for the home
雜貨店
賣食品和日用品的商店
food shops that sell groceries and everyday things for the home
After work, Isabela stopped at the stores for bread, onions, and soap.
下班後，Isabela 去雜貨店買麵包、洋蔥和肥皂。
go to the stores for food and household items
The stores in their town sell fresh fruit, rice, and cleaning spray.
他們鎮上的雜貨店賣新鮮水果、白米和清潔噴霧。
Christopher called the stores to ask which one still had baby formula.
Christopher 打電話給幾家雜貨店，問哪一家還有嬰兒配方奶。
On snowy evenings, the stores close early after the milk shelves empty.
下雪的晚上，牛奶貨架一空，雜貨店就會提早打烊。
- grocery stores
the full and most explicit American English term
- supermarkets
usually larger than the smaller neighborhood stores in this sense
- grocers
can mean grocery shops or the people who run them
文法句型
go to the stores
stores + sell + food
call the stores
用法筆記
Use this sense for shops that mainly sell food and basic household supplies. More general retail businesses belong in sense 1.
常見錯誤
3. websites or apps where customers choose goods and buy them
網路商店
可在線上選購商品的網站或應用程式
websites or apps where customers choose goods and buy them
Many online stores now let customers track every order on their phones.
許多網路商店現在讓顧客用手機追蹤每一筆訂單。
online stores + track orders on phones
Hyun builds online stores for local artists who want to sell handmade soap.
Hyun 為想賣手工肥皂的在地藝術家建立網路商店。
When the payment page crashed, several online stores lost sales that afternoon.
付款頁面當天下午一當機，幾家網路商店就損失了訂單。
Shoppers often compare delivery fees across online stores before placing an order.
下單前，消費者常會比較不同網路商店的運費。
- webshops
common in some business writing, but less everyday than 'online stores'
- e-commerce sites
more formal and focused on the commercial platform
- marketplaces
often broader because many sellers can share one platform
- physical stores
shops that customers visit in person
文法句型
online stores
build stores
compare stores before ordering
用法筆記
This sense is digital, not physical. It often appears with words such as online, app, payment page, or delivery fee.
常見錯誤
4. amounts of useful things kept so they can be used later
儲備；存貨
留待日後使用的物資
amounts of useful things kept so they can be used later
Emergency stores of water and rice were moved to the school gym.
緊急儲備的水和白米被移到學校體育館。
stores of + noun for supplies kept in reserve
By spring, the camp's fuel stores were almost gone after the long freeze.
到了春天，營地的燃料存貨在漫長寒冬後幾乎用盡。
Arjun checked the medicine stores before the mobile clinic left at dawn.
流動診所天一亮出發前，Arjun 檢查了藥品儲備。
The flood cut off road access, so food stores had to last a month.
洪水切斷了道路，所以食物儲備得撐上一個月。
- reserves
often suggests something kept for emergencies or future need
- supplies
broader and more everyday, but less focused on being saved up
- stockpiles
suggests a large amount collected and kept ready
- shortages
a state where there is not enough of something
文法句型
stores of + food/water/fuel
food stores
stores run low
用法筆記
This sense names the supply itself. Sense 5 names the room or building where the supplies are kept.
常見錯誤
5. rooms or buildings used to hold goods or materials until someone needs them
倉庫；儲藏室
存放物品直到需要時再取用的空間
rooms or buildings used to hold goods or materials until someone needs them
The hospital keeps extra blankets in stores behind the children's ward.
醫院把額外的毛毯放在兒童病房後面的儲藏室裡。
stores as rooms used for keeping supplies
Workers rolled paint cans from the stores to the stage before sunrise.
天亮前，工人把油漆罐從倉庫運到舞台邊。
During the audit, Apinya found old tools stacked in three locked stores.
盤點時，Apinya 發現三間上鎖的儲藏室裡堆著舊工具。
The museum added climate control to its stores for fragile paper maps.
博物館為存放易損紙本地圖的倉庫加裝了恆溫設備。
- storerooms
the most direct modern equivalent for rooms used to keep supplies
- stockrooms
often used in shops for staff-only storage areas
- warehouses
usually larger buildings for storage and distribution
文法句型
in the stores
from the stores
stores behind + place
用法筆記
This sense is about the space where things are kept, often in institutions such as hospitals, museums, or ships. Sense 4 is about the supplies inside that space.
常見錯誤
stores — 動詞
- storespresent simple I / you / we / they
- storeses3rd person singular
- storesing-ing form
- storesedpast simple
1. if a person, animal, or system stores something, it keeps it in a place where it
儲存；存放
把東西放好留待之後使用
if a person, animal, or system stores something, it keeps it in a place where it can be used later
The library stores rare posters in flat drawers away from bright light.
圖書館把珍貴海報存放在避開強光的平抽屜裡。
stores + object + in + place
Each autumn, Tendai stores onions in a cool shed behind the house.
每到秋天，Tendai 都把洋蔥存放在屋後涼爽的小棚子裡。
The app stores your boarding pass on the phone for offline use.
這個應用程式會把你的登機證儲存在手機裡，方便離線使用。
The squirrel stores seeds under the fence before the first snow.
第一場雪前，那隻松鼠把種子儲存在籬笆下面。
文法句型
stores + object + in + place
stores + object + on + device
stores + object + under + place
用法筆記
The object usually comes before the place phrase: store photos on a phone, store onions in a shed. The object is something kept for future use.