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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
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
糖果；甜食
candy and other sweets considered collectively
Would you like a piece of confectionery?
你想来一块糖果吗？
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。
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。
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。
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。
Not this
I ate a confectionery after lunch.
Use this
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。
Not this
The shop sells fresh confectioners.
Use this
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。
Not this
She bought some sweets at confectionery.
Use this
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。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
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。
糖果区
The confectionery aisle is near the checkout.
糖果区在收银台附近。
Use confectionery naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 confectionery 拆成 confect（调制）+ ery（场所/行业）：调制出来的就是甜食，卖它的地方是糖果店。
语域：mixed 常见场景：食品工业和产品标签、商店招牌和零售、书面或行业说明 confectionery 比 candy/sweets 正式，通常用于书面、商业或行业语境；口语里更常说 candy 或 sweets。指糖果店或糖果糕点制作时，也比较常见于招牌和行业资料。
指糖果/甜食或糖果业时不可数；指糖果店时可数，复数形式为 confectioneries。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.