网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 bookstall
释义 bookstall
noun[ C ]
mainly UKuk /ˈbʊk.stɔːl/ us /ˈbʊk.stɑːl/
a table or a very small shop with an open front where books, magazines, etc. are sold书亭;书摊;报摊
Compare
bookshopmainly UK
bookstoremainly US
 
TkKurikawa/iStock Editorial/GettyImages
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Shops & auctions
agora
army disposals store
army surplus store
army-navy store
art gallery
corner shop
craft fair
craft shop
creamery
deli
makers' market
mall
mart
meat market
medical hall
strip mall
super-sale
supermarket
superstore
swap meet
Examples from literature

As he turned away from the moving carriage the evening papers had just arrived at the bookstalls. 
He came opposite the bookstalls and stopped short and stared with unseeing eyes at the display of popular literature. 
IT is interesting, though ill-mannered, to watch other people at a railway bookstall and guess their choice of literature from their outward appearance. 
Other crowds collected at the bookstalls, and the bookstall keeper was eying with dislike men who were under the impression that they were in a free library. 
The clergyman seized a handful of newspapers from the bookstall. 

Examples of bookstall


bookstall
It was literature of the previous generation that wound up on twopenny bookstalls and in the readers used by working-class schools, which depended on out-of-copyright material.
It plays host to foreign activists and concerned scholars, its own activists participate in international conferences, and its bookstall sells a range of critical, anti-development literature.
It is not so much a question of the terminal and main line station bookstalls.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
They see indecent publications on the bookstalls, but do not buy them because they are not interested, or are revolted.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Telegrams can already be sent from the principal railway stations and stamps can be obtained at many bookstalls.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Is anything to be done to remove these books from the bookstalls?
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Our bookstalls and cinema screens are shameless and are sure proof of the sickness that is gripping us today.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He went to a bookstall and abstracted a book.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The friendship extends to manning the gallery bookstall and the other services that it provides for the public.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
They actually appear in this document, which apparently can be bought from a few bookstalls for 50p.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
His father ran a bookstall in the marketplace.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Magazines—and books and newspapers—will be on sale at the three bookstalls in this exhibition.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
If he was referring merely to lending libraries and bookstalls, it would of course be perfectly feasible.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The cinema, the theatre and magazines on bookstalls are the most obvious examples of this category.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
They may be building bookstalls or petrol filling stations or running car delivery firms.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/23 3:52:58