買菜說(shuō)成buy vegetable不能說(shuō)錯(cuò)，只是不地道，因?yàn)閚ative English speaker不這么說(shuō)。

我們買菜當(dāng)然是去菜市場(chǎng)，地?cái)?，要么超市。As far as I know,?老外買菜要么去supermarket，要么去grocery store。grocery store給我第一反應(yīng)是雜貨店，小超市的感覺(jué)。來(lái)看看牛津詞典對(duì)grocery的解釋：

(especially British English)?(North American English usually grocery store)?[可數(shù)名詞] a shop/store that sells food and other things used in the home. In American English ‘grocery store ’ is often used to mean ‘supermarket?’.?食品雜貨店（在美國(guó)英語(yǔ)中g(shù)rocery store常用以指supermarket）

再聽(tīng)聽(tīng)Englishpod主播對(duì)groceries的解讀：

Groceries are all of the food items you need to buy at the supermarket, so like your bread and milk and meat and vegetables...

Examples:

There's no milk. Can you go to the grocery store?

Here's the grocery list. I need all of these things, so that I can cook dinner tonight. Don't forget anything.

I hate grocery shopping. I can never find what I'm looking for.

另外，grocery美國(guó)英語(yǔ)和加拿大英語(yǔ)還有一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)區(qū)別，看對(duì)話：

A（加拿大人）: You know, grocery store, I think this is quite a common word in Canada.

B（美國(guó)人）: Probably in north America.

A: Yeah, do you say gorcery store in America?

B: Well, if it's a small one.

A: Really, so...

B: Like a small store.

A: In Canada, I say grocery store for even like a super market.

B: Really?

A: Yeah.

B: I guess, mm, I would say supermarket for a large one and grocery store for a little corner shop.

A: All of these little differences in American and Canadian English.

B: Hehe.

”今天誰(shuí)買菜？“這是我經(jīng)常對(duì)老婆說(shuō)的一個(gè)高頻句，看Englishpod原文中的兩句：

I'll do the dishes and get all the groceries for tonight.

I'll go to the supermarket and get all the groceries.

”買“是get，不是buy；”菜“是 groceries而非vegetable。還有第一句中的”洗碗“的洗不是wash而是do，這是英漢思維（習(xí)慣）的區(qū)別，很多時(shí)候，漢語(yǔ)用具體的下意詞，而英語(yǔ)用抽象的上意詞。字面上，英語(yǔ)更合邏輯些，groceries涵蓋各種吃的，漢語(yǔ)用一個(gè)＂菜＂代表了做飯所需的各種，如果按字面只翻譯vegetable，＂菜＂所代表的約定俗成的含義就譯不出，萬(wàn)一你還要買豆腐和肉類呢。

"今天誰(shuí)買菜？"是不是可以這樣說(shuō)：

Who's gonna get all the groceries for tonight?