The shop assistant kept assuring me of the quality, so I took it. 售货员不断向我保证品质,所以我就买下了。
The corner shop owner knew who liked a particular brand of jam and kept it in stock for them. 街角小店的店主知道哪些顾客喜欢某个特定品牌的果酱,因此会为他们留一些货。
All our shop's genre fiction-fantasy, science fiction, romance and so on-is kept upstairs. 我们书店里所有的类型小说,奇幻的、科幻的、言情的等等,都在楼上。
Imagine a corner shop that is not doing well. At best it cannot provide its owner with a minimum standard of living. At worst it cannot even cover its costs and is kept going by loans and donations from relations, friends and well-wishers. 假设一家街角小店生意不好,那么最好的情况是,它只是无法帮店主满足最低生活标准,而最糟糕的情况是,它入不敷出,只能靠贷款以及亲戚朋友和好心人的捐助运营。