特别广播英语第 35 课：American stores 美国各种类型的商店-2

There are "discount houses" offering goods at low prices, and "dime stores" specializing in a wide range of inexpensive items. 还有以低价供货的"特价商品屋"和专营各种下大值钱的东西"十美分商店"。

Most department stores in large cities carry average to better quality products at average to higher prices. 在一些大城市，大多数百货公司经营的产品一般说来质量较好，但价格平均也比较高。

However, they offer the shopper great convenience since they contain such a wide variety of products. 尽管价格较高，因为百货公司里有很多很多的不同的产品，这就给逛商店的人提供了很大的方便。

If convenience isn't important to you as price, you many want to shop in some of the discount houses. 如果对你来说，这些方便不如价格重要，那你可以去一些特价商品屋去采购。

These stores have nearly as great a variety of goods as department stores, but offer lower prices. 这些商店所拥有的商品几乎跟大百货公司一样地品种繁多，可是价格去比较低。

They can do so for several reasons. They don't offer the same services to buyers that department stores do; there may be fewer sales people; and the store probably doesn't deliver purchases. 特价商品屋之所以能这样做，有下列几种原因：他们不能像大百货公司提供给买主的那些服务项目；特价商品屋的销售人手比较小，所以这种商店可能不会送货上门。

There are many small shops in America, as there are everywhere, that offer a more limited quantity of products. 在美国，正像世界各地一样，有很多小店铺，这些小店铺供应的商品品种就更有限了。

Usually run by a small number of salespeople, these shops offer products that range from inexpensive to very expensive, depending on the shop. 通常只有少数几个人在经营这个店铺，这些铺子经营的产品有不贵的也有很贵的，这要看该铺子的情况了。

You are likely to receive more attention from the sales-people in small shops than in department stores. 在这些小铺子里比大百货公司里你可能会得到售货员的更加细心的照料。