emporium

英 [em'pɔːrɪəm; ɪm-] 美 [ɛm'pɔrɪəm]
  • n. 商场,大百货商店;商业中心

中文词源


emporium 大型商城

em-, 进入,使。-por, 通行,港口,贸易,词源同port. 原指贸易的港口,后指商城。

英文词源


emporium (n.)
1580s, "place of trade, mart," from Latin emporium, from Greek emporion "trading place, market," from emporos "merchant," originally "traveler," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + poros "passage, voyage," related to peirein "to pass through" (see port (n.1)). Greek emporos in the "merchant" sense meant especially "one who trades on a large scale, usually but not necessarily by sea" [Buck], as opposed to kapelos "local retail dealer, shopkeeper." Properly, a town which serves as the commercial hub of a region, but by 1830s American English "Grandiloquently applied to a shop or store" [Craigie].

双语例句


1. an arts and crafts emporium
工艺品商店

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2. Singapore, emporium of the East.
新加坡, 东方的商业中心.

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3. Analyses the operation effect of total heat exchangers applied to emporium area.
分析了商场部分全热交换器的应用效果.

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4. Some TV sets for sale in the emporium were stolen last night.
那家商场用来出售的部分电视机昨晚被盗.

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5. An emporium is a shop.
商场是个购物的场所.

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