a piece of confectionery
confectionery 指糖果、甜食的总称时不可数，表示单个可用 a piece of confectionery。
Would you like a piece of confectionery?
你想来一块糖果吗？
糖果；甜食
糖果店；甜食店；糖果糕点制作；甜食业；味道很甜的食品总称；糖果、蜜饯和甜食的统称。；制造糖果糕点的行业或职业；糖果匠的手艺或工作。；出售糖果糕点的商店；糖果店。
candy and other sweets considered collectively
味道很甜的食品总称；糖果、蜜饯和甜食的统称。
Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
制造糖果糕点的行业或职业；糖果匠的手艺或工作。
The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
出售糖果糕点的商店；糖果店。
A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.
The children were delighted by the display of confectionery in the shop window.
孩子们看到商店橱窗里的糖果陈列非常高兴。
用法提示：confectionery 为不可数名词，表示“糖果、甜食”的总称，作介词 of 的宾语。
She bought a box of confectionery as a gift for her grandmother.
她买了一盒糖果作为送给祖母的礼物。
用法提示：confectionery 为不可数名词，表示“糖果”，与 a box of 搭配使用。
The movie theater used to sell confectionery, but now it only offers popcorn and drinks.
这家电影院过去卖糖果，但现在只卖爆米花和饮料。
用法提示：confectionery 为不可数名词，统称“糖果甜食”，作动词 sell 的宾语。
confectionery 指糖果、甜食的总称时不可数，表示单个可用 a piece of confectionery。
Would you like a piece of confectionery?
你想来一块糖果吗？
confectionery 也可指糖果店，此时为可数名词，复数形式是 confectioneries。
I bought some chocolates at the confectionery on the corner.
我在街角那家糖果店买了些巧克力。
表示糖果糕点制作这一行业时，confectionery 为不可数名词，常与 work in 搭配。
She has worked in confectionery for over ten years.
她从事甜食制作业已十多年了。
英式英语常用，可指一块块糖果或甜食；作总称时能代替 confectionery，但更口语化，且只用复数形式。
美式英语的常用总称，常作不可数名词；英式英语中 candy 多指冰糖或蜜饯类甜食，替代时需注意地域差异。
较正式且偏书面，常指精心制作的花式甜食；与 confectionery 意思相近但语域更高，日常口语中少用。
grammar · medium
易错句子I ate a confectionery after lunch.
正确表达I ate some confectionery after lunch.
confectionery 表示“糖果、甜食（总称）”时是不可数集合名词，不能用 a 来指“一块糖果”；表示不确定数量应用 some confectionery，若要明确指“一块甜点”则用 a confection。
grammar · medium
易错句子The shop sells fresh confectioners.
正确表达The shop sells fresh confectionery.
confectioner 指“糖果/糕点师傅或店主”，confectionery 才指“糖果甜食（总称）”；本句要表达“售卖甜食”，不能用表示人的词。
grammar · medium
易错句子She bought some sweets at confectionery.
正确表达She bought some sweets at a confectionery.
confectionery 作“糖果店”讲时是可数名词，单数需要冠词 a/an，不能说 at confectionery；中文没有冠词，所以容易漏掉。
与 confectionery 的‘甜食/糖果总称’意思相近，但 candy 更口语化，且可作为可数名词指‘一块糖’；confectionery 是正式集合名词，还另指糖果店或制糖业。
confection 是可数名词，指‘一件精致的甜食/糕点’；confectionery 是集合名词，指这类食品的总称，或指糖果店、甜食业。
confectioner 指‘制作或销售糖果糕点的人’；confectionery 指甜食本身、糖果店或甜食制作业，二者词性和指代对象不同。
糖果店
The children headed straight to the confectionery shop.
孩子们直奔糖果店。
糖果糕点行业
She works in the confectionery industry as a quality inspector.
她在糖果糕点行业做质量检验员。
甜食产品
The store sells a wide range of confectionery products.
这家商店出售各种各样的甜食产品。
糖果制造商
The country's largest confectionery manufacturer opened a new factory.
该国最大的糖果制造商开设了一家新工厂。
一块甜食
He offered me a piece of confectionery.
他请我吃了一块甜食。
con-(together) + fect-(make) + -ion-(noun suffix) + -ery-(place/business/collection). Related: con- → connect, contain; -fect-/-fact- → factory, manufacture; -ery → bakery, refinery.
糖果中的常见种类和原料，常与糖果店、糕点制作一同出现。
一种常见糖果，原料与制作工艺常和糖果制造相关。
硬质糖果的一种，常与糖果店或甜食并列。
用于糖果和糕点装饰的甜食原料。
糖果的主要原料，也是甜食话题的核心词汇。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.
糖果区
The confectionery aisle is near the checkout.
糖果区在收银台附近。