mall
mall 英 [mɔ:l] 美 [mɔl, mæl]
n. 购物商场；
名词复数:malls
- A mall is a large shopping center. If you want to spend your day buying clothes and eating in a food court, the mall is the place for you.
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- n. 购物商场；
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1. Let's go to the mall.
我们去商场吧。
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2. Some teenagers were hanging out at the mall.
有些青少年在大型购物中心里闲逛。
- mall (n.) 1737, "shaded walk serving as a promenade," generalized from The Mall, name of a broad, tree-lined promenade in St. James's Park, London (so called from 1670s, earlier Maill, 1640s), which was so called because it formerly was an open alley that was used to play pall-mall, a croquet-like game involving hitting a ball with a mallet through a ring. The game's name is from French pallemaille, from Italian pallamaglio, from palla "ball" (see balloon (n.)) + maglio "mallet" (from Latin malleus "a hammer, mallet," from PIE root *mele- "to crush, grind"). Modern sense of "enclosed shopping gallery" is from 1962 (from 1951 in reference to city streets set aside for pedestrians only). Mall rat is from 1985.
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