Word · Frequency #11189
newsagents
报刊经销商
newsagents is the plural of newsagent.
someone who sells newspapers
- 1.
A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.
报刊文具店；出售报纸、杂志和文具的零售店
- 2.
The proprietor of such a business.
报刊文具店的店主或经营者
报刊文具店；出售报纸、杂志和文具的零售店；报刊文具店的店主或经营者
In use
I asked the newsagent whether the morning paper had arrived yet.
The local newsagents all sell bus tickets as well as newspapers.
She worked as a newsagent for ten years before retiring.
be a newsagent
newsagent 是可数名词，指人，可用不定冠词 a。
My uncle is a newsagent.
我叔叔是报刊经销商。
work as a newsagent
work as 后接职业名词，表示从事某种职业。
She works as a newsagent in the local shop.
她在当地商店做报刊经销商。
Common mistakes
He is newsagent.He is a newsagent.
newsagent 是可数名词，表示‘报刊经销商’这个身份时前面需要不定冠词 a；汉语没有冠词，所以容易漏掉。
Connections
Collocations
- local newsagent
- 当地报刊经销商
- I get my newspapers from the local newsagent.我从当地报刊经销商那里买报纸。
- corner newsagent
- 街角报刊经销商
- The corner newsagent sells cards and stationery.街角报刊经销商出售贺卡和文具。
- independent newsagent
- 独立报刊经销商
- He runs an independent newsagent in the village.他在村里经营一家独立报刊经销店。
- at the newsagents
- 在报刊经销店
- I'll stop at the newsagents on my way to work.我上班途中会在报刊经销店停一下。
Synonyms
- newsdealer
- 报刊零售商（美国用语） · 美国英语中常用，可指店家或报刊零售商；在英国不如 newsagent 常见，一般用于经营报刊零售业务的人。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
news（新闻）+ agent（代理人）→ 替新闻找到买家的代理人，即报刊经销商。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常交谈、购物 newsagent 通常指卖报纸杂志的小店店主，多用于英式英语的口语或日常购物的场景中，比较常见于越洋日常交流而非正式书面语。
Pronunciation & Spelling
agent 和 reagent 与 newsagent 结尾的 -agent 读音相同，都是 /eɪdʒənt/。pageant、sergeant 和 urgent 拼写相近但读音不同：pageant /ˈpædʒənt/、sergeant /ˈsɑːdʒənt/、urgent /ˈɜːdʒənt/。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.