買菜是老百姓日常生活中必不可少的事情，但是一說到「買菜」的英文，你是不是想當然認為是「buy vegetables」？
vegetable是「蔬菜」的統稱，buy vegetables的意思是「只買蔬菜」，但是除了素食主義者，大多數人買菜除了買蔬菜，也會買肉、蛋、禽類等，所以這麼說是不準確的！那麼，「買菜」用英文怎麼說最合適呢？
There is no food at home. Didn't you
buy groceries today?
家裡沒有吃的了。你今天沒
買菜嗎？
My parents gave me some money to
buy groceries.
我的父母給了我一些錢去
買菜。
I wrote down a note as a reminder to
get groceries after work.
03 go/do grocery shopping
We need to do/go grocery shopping
because there is no food in the house.
Next time I'll try to pick up groceries
on the way home from work.
下次我會儘量下班回家順便去買菜。
The supermarket is at times as noisy
as a wet market, although thankfully
not as smelly.
超市有時候和菜市場一樣吵，但是還好沒
有那麼臭。
For the past few days she's been
working as a street vendor, selling
fruit and vegetables.
幾天來，她一直在街頭賣水果和蔬菜。
貨攤，攤位
In the village market, the stalls are
piled high with local vegetables.
村子集市的攤位上高高地堆著當地產的蔬菜。