2do the shoppingBUYto go shopping to buy food and other things you need regularly 购物
I hate doing the shopping at weekends.
我讨厌在周末购物。
Examples from the Corpus
do the shopping• We need to go grocery shopping - do you have the check book?• Jane would light the fire, turn the heating on, put the horses and donkey out and do the shopping.• It is good for me to get out and do the shopping.• While I do the shopping, Miles sits near the checkoutcounter reading.• I did all my shoppingyesterday.• But then, Harriet with her fair-haired plaits and smooth round foreheadjiggling off to help Mummydo the shopping.• Husbands can easily get out of touch with the cost of living unless they do the shopping regularly and see the bills.• With Ivy and Ken she would take a weeklytrip into Aberdeen or Banchory to do the shopping.• With Chancellor at the wheel, they had left enfamille to do the shopping.• She sent her husband out to do the week's shopping.• Our sick ones received their injections, then off we went to do the shopping.• On Saturdays we usually do the shopping and clean the house.
3British EnglishBrEBUY the things that you have just bought from a shop 〔从商店里〕刚买来的东西
Can you help me carry the shopping, please?
请帮我拿一下刚买来的这些东西好吗?
nCOLLOCATIONS
verbs
go shopping
She skipped lunch in order to go shopping.
do some/the/your shopping
I thought you wanted to do some shopping.
NOUN + shopping
Christmas shopping
So you've done all your Christmas shopping, have you?
grocery shopping
She even enjoys grocery shopping.
home shopping (=buying things at home, for example from a catalogue)
shopping + NOUN
a shopping expedition/trip
His shopping trip with Uncle Billy had been a thorough success.
a shopping spree (=when you buy a lot of things)
He admits to going on a shopping spree with someone else's credit card.
a shopping list (=a list of what you need to buy, especially of food)
Always take a shopping list so you are not tempted to buy things you do not need.
shopping expedition/trip• D' you feel like a shopping trip to New York?• Pizza is how we make a shopping trip special when the purchases will not be for them.• He was allegedly detained at the town's Safeway Supermarket after a Friday afternoonshopping expedition went wrong.• Christmas was over, so we could hardly announce that she had gone on another shopping trip.• Before the week is over, she will make several more shopping trips to put food on the dinnertable.• An ordinaryshopping trip will leave you weary.• Later in the day, after their shopping expedition, Jessica and Karen drove down to the docks.• She used to really like those shopping trips to Nordstrom.