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Supermarket in the US
美国的超市
Nothing in recent years has so changed the economy of the United States as the development of the supermarket. Previously, people bought their food in small grocery stores, generally located on a nearby corner. Now, almost everyone shops in large supermarkets. The small independent grocer has practically disappeared from the American scene.
最近几年没有什么比超市更能改变美国经济的了。以前，人们去一些街角附近的小卖店买吃的东西，现在，几乎每个人都去大超市购物了，而那些小卖店几乎已经在美国消失了。
When a supermarket is established in a certain section of a city, other smaller stores rise up around it almost immediately. The entire group of stores becomes what is known as a shopping center. The average supermarket covers about 35,000 square feet of shopping area. It should have one parking space for every 300 square feet of shopping area. Six out of every ten American shoppers drive to the supermarket.
当一家大超市在市内的一个地方开业时，在它周围立刻就会开起多家小商店，这些商店合在一起成为了购物中心。平均一家超市要占35000平方英尺的面积，而每300平方英尺就需要有一个停车位，有近6成的美国人会开车去超市购物。
Statistics show that the average American housewife goes to the supermarket twice a week. On the average she spends from one to two hours there each week. Psychologists say that women don't go to the supermarket just to buy food. Visiting the supermarket is the housewife's chance to get away from home for a while. In the supermarket she feels that she is part of the outside world. She gets to know all the new products. Frequently she meets a number of her friends in the supermarket.
数据表明，平均每位美国家庭主妇一周要去两次超市，她们平均每周要在超市花1-2小时。心理学家说，女性去超市不仅仅是为了买食品，逛超市对于家庭主妇来说是一个短暂离开家庭环境的一种方式，在超市她们可以感受到自己是属于外面世界的一部分，她可以了解新产品，她经常会约几位好友一起逛超市。
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