It used to be that a paper route or an after-school job at the local grocer was viewed as a rite of passage for young people.

过去对年轻人来说，找一份送报纸的兼职或者放学后前往本地杂货店打工，往往被视为人生必经阶段。

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The grocer accused her of shoplifting and demanded to look in her bag.

这家食品杂货店指控她行窃并要求搜查她的包。

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At the other end of the social scale was the grocer.

处于社会阶层另一端的是杂货商。

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And now let's suppose that your parents are going away for the weekend and they leave you with the following instructions: If it's raining tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you are to close the windows, open the door and let the cat in, phone the grocer and have him send over the following list of groceries. All right.

现在假设你们的父母这周末,离开了，给你们留下了,以下的一些指示：,如果明天早上下雨了，醒来的时候，要把窗户关好，打开门,让猫进来，打电话给杂货店并且让他,送来以下的生活用品，好的。

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During his 14-year tenure (1997-2011), Sir Terry Leahy, the former chief executive of Tesco PLC catapulted the British grocer into the number three position among global retailers.

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The grocer ran it across the street to pay one of his suppliers.

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