When she arrived at the large department store, she sat in front of an empty counter. She was trying to gather strength and courage to push through a mass of busy shoppers.

到了百货商场的以后，她坐在一排没顾客的柜台前，她正在蓄积力气和精神，以便从熙熙攘攘的购物人群中挤进去。

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If he visited a department store it was to lounge familiarly over the counter and ask some leading questions.

他上百货大楼时，总喜欢靠在柜台上和女店员像老熟人一样聊聊，问些套近乎的问题。

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Yang handsome guy in the department store may be a small first few years, counter the attitude of a salesperson "s particularly good to him."

可能洋帅哥在百货商场里是个小头儿，柜台的营业员对他态度特别好。

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Request samples at a Kiehl's store (where the selection is usually larger) or a Kiehl's counter in a department store.

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Richard Hyman of Verdict Research, a retail research company, says that people will desert traditional shopping streets in favour of the rain-and car-free walkways of malls if city centres have no obvious counter-attractions such as a big department store.

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Sexier, but in no less a commodity category, Sephora took on both the over-the-counter department store cosmetic brands and the under-wraps drug store brands and created an open-sell environment as its distinguishing brand factor.

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