do shopping是什么意思？我们平常聊天说去买个菜，这个“菜”不单单指“蔬菜”（vegetables）, 而是猪牛羊肉和各种蔬菜以及油盐酱醋米面等的统称。

所以， 用buy vegetables显然一来不地道，二来不准确了。buy vegetables严格上仅仅表示只买蔬菜；这里的 “菜”我们可以用 grocery 这个词。

Grocery /n. 食品杂货店；食品杂货Grocery store 就是 “超市；日用品商店supermarket”在美国是很少有 “菜市场”的，所以一般的蔬菜和水果肉类，都在超市或者零售店购买。除了grocery store ， 美国还有一类商店叫做便利店 convenient store， 这类商店主要出售一些生活必需品 necessaries 。从 grocery store 买回的东西，都叫做 groceries. 英式英语是“grocery shop”，而美式英语则是“grocery store”。

She was loaded down with bags of groceries.

她提着很多装着食品的杂货袋。

Mrs Caan needs a little help getting her groceries home

卡安太太需要有人帮把手将食品杂货拿回家。

I hope the old hag has gone out to do her grocery shopping and hasn't come back yet.

我希望那个老妖婆出门买杂货还没回来。

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“买菜” 英语可以说成 ↓

Do/go grocery shopping （购买食品和日用品的统称）

Do shopping 一般是购买除蔬菜日用品之外的东西，比如衣服，鞋子，包包等。

Buy/get some groceries.买菜

Do/go grocery shopping（去）买菜

Get groceries买菜

Pick up groceries买菜，顺道买菜

Create your dinner menu for the entire week, and then go grocery shopping to get what you need for every dinner.

设计好一周的正餐食谱，并去商店买好需要的食材。

There's no food in the house. Didn't you buy groceries today?

家里没有吃的了。你今天没买菜吗？

Let's go grocery shopping.

我们去买菜吧。

Where do you usually go for grocery shopping?

您通常在哪里买菜/水果？

pick up groceries 购买副食品，买蔬菜瓜果

Next time I'll try to pick up groceries on the way home from work.

下次我会尽量下班回家顺便去买菜。

Remember to buy some pork in the wet market if you knock off early today.

如果你今天下班早的话，记得在菜市场买点猪肉。

The supermarket is at times as noisy as a wet market - although thankfully not as smelly.

超市有时候和菜市场一样吵，但是还好没有那么臭。

Because of this outbreak, we cook at home almost every day.

因为疫情的关系，我们基本上天天在家做饭。