counter
noun /ˈkaʊntə(r)/
/ˈkaʊntər/
Idioms - a long flat surface over which goods are sold or business is done in a shop, bank, etc.
（商店、银行等的）柜台 - behind the counter I asked the woman behind the counter if they had any postcards.
我问柜台后面的女售货员是否有明信片。
Wordfinder- assistant
- buy
- counter
- display
- fitting room
- promotion
- sale
- shop
- store
- till
Topics Shoppingb2- He pushed the money across the counter to her.
他把钱从柜枱上推过去给她。 - He works at the meat counter.
他在肉类柜枱工作。 - Mary served behind the counter at Bacon's for a few hours a week.
玛丽每周在培根酒吧当几个小时的吧台服务员。 - She handed me my coffee over the counter.
她把我的咖啡从柜枱上方递给我。 - The assistant behind the counter gave a curt nod.
柜枱后的售货员匆匆地点了下头。 - The barman wiped down the counter in silence.
酒吧招待默不作声地把柜台擦干净了。 - There was a line of people waiting at the checkout counter.
收款台前有一队等候结账的人。 - They sat on high stools at the bar counter.
他们坐在吧台旁的高凳上。 - all the goods on the counter
柜枱出售的所有商品 - an airline check-in counter
航空公司办理登机手续的柜枱 - post office counter staff
邮局柜枱工作人员
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- checkout
- post office
- shop
- …
- serve at
- serve behind
- work at
- …
- top
- staff
- across a/the counter
- at a/the counter
- behind a/the counter
- …
- behind the counter I asked the woman behind the counter if they had any postcards.
- enlarge image(also countertop)(both North American English)(British English worktop, work surface)a flat surface in a kitchen for preparing food on
（厨房的）操作台 - She put her bags down on the kitchen counter.
她把袋子都放在厨房的操作台上。 - The kitchen had black marble counter tops.
厨房是黑色的花岗岩台面。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- checkout
- post office
- shop
- …
- serve at
- serve behind
- work at
- …
- top
- staff
- across a/the counter
- at a/the counter
- behind a/the counter
- …
- She put her bags down on the kitchen counter.
- enlarge imagea small disc used for playing or scoring in some board games
（某些棋盘游戏的）筹码，棋子 - enlarge image(especially in compounds
尤用于构成复合词 （电子）计数器，计算器 - The needle on the rev counter soared.
转速计的指针猛升。 - You need to reset the counter.
你需要重置计数器。
- The needle on the rev counter soared.
- a person who counts something, for example votes in an election
清点某物的人，例如在选举中投票的人 - You can get computers to help the counters to count the votes.
你可以让电脑帮助柜台清点选票。
- You can get computers to help the counters to count the votes.
- [usually singular] counter (to somebody/something) (formal) a response to somebody/something that opposes their ideas, position, etc.
（对意见、态度等的）反对，反驳 - The employers' association was seen as a counter to union power.
雇主协会被看作是工会权力的对头。
- The government's programme should be an effective counter to unemployment.
政府的计划应该有效遏制失业。 - an effective counter to the blandness of modern culture
对缺乏生气的现代文化的有效反击
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- effective
- counter to
- The employers' association was seen as a counter to union power.
词源noun senses 1 to 4 Middle English (in sense (3)): from Old French conteor, from medieval Latin computatorium, from Latin computare ‘calculate’, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’. noun sense 5 late Middle English: from Old French contre, from Latin contra ‘against’, or directly from counter-.
Idioms
over the counter
- goods, especially medicines, for sale over the counter can be bought without a prescription (= written permission from a doctor to buy a medicine) or special licence
（尤指购药）不凭处方 - These tablets are available over the counter.
这些药片不用处方就可买到。 - This kind of medication cannot be bought over the counter.
这种药需凭处方购买。
- These tablets are available over the counter.
under the counter
- goods that are bought or sold under the counter are sold secretly and sometimes illegally
（商品销售）秘密地，暗地里，非法地 - Pornography may be legally banned but it is still available under the counter.
色情可能会被法律禁止，但它仍然可以在柜台下买到。
- Pornography may be legally banned but it is still available under the counter.