Bodega

bodega



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[boh-dey-guh]



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–noun 

1. (esp. among Spanish-speaking Americans) a grocery store. 

2. a wineshop. 

3. a warehouse for storing or aging wine.  



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shop 2, bodega, boutique, shoppe, store (nn.)   

 

What Americans call a store, the British call a shop, but Americans now use both terms, although frequently with a semantic (語義學的) distinction: 



。retail establishments that sell groceries or hardware or liquor, for example, are nearly always called stores, 



。but hats and dresses are usually sold in shops or, 

if very select and expensive (or with pretensions to being so), in boutiques (English pronunciation BOO-TEEKS). 



And many other retail places can be any of the three. 



Shoppe is an archaic spelling of shop, restored to service by shopkeepers hoping to add some distinction to the names of their businesses. 



Bodega (pronounced bo-DAI-guh) was originally the Spanish name for a wineshop or a wineshop-and-grocery combination, and Hispanic-Americans now use the term generally for their ethnically distinctive food-and-drink retail stores.   

 



　First impressions: Look at that poster! It’s schlock-tastic, like something you’d find in the storage room of a bodega; In odd contrast, Brody looks like late period Al Pacino in the stills; Vincent Gallo is no doubt scoffing into the wind. Here’s the logline: Giallo centers on an American flight attendant (Emmaunuelle Seigner) who teams with an Italian investigator (Brody) to search for her missing sister who has been abducted by a serial killer known only as Yellow, or ‘Giallo.’ He likes to cut up beautiful women.





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