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1TTRROAD/PATHa public road in a city or town that has houses, shops etc on one or both sides 大街,街道
We moved to Center Street when I was young.
在我小时候,我们搬到了中心大街。
She lives just a few streets away.
她的住处就在几条街外。
I walked on further down the street.
我继续沿着马路走。
Someone just moved in across the street.
街对面有人刚刚搬进来。
a car parked on the other side of the street
停在街对面的一辆车
2the streets[plural] (also the street)HOME the busy public parts of a city where there is a lot of activity, excitement, and crime, or where people without homes live 〔热闹的、罪案时有发生的或无家可归者居住的〕街头
on the streets
young people living on the streets
流落街头的年轻人
She felt quite safe walking the streets after dark.
她觉得天黑以后走在街上挺安全的。
Children as young as five are left to roam the streets (=walk around the streets) at night.
在夜里年仅五岁的孩子被任由在街头游荡。
street musicians (=ones who play on the street)
街头音乐家
She has written about the realities of street life (=living on the streets).
3the man/woman in the street (also the man/woman on the street)ORDINARY the average person, who represents the general opinion about things 普通人,平民百姓
The man on the street assumes that all politicians are corrupt.
老百姓认为政客都腐败。
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the man/woman in the street• But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?• Then comes the whip, the suddenviciousreminder of the man in the street.• The advertisingindustry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.• That's what the man in the street wants.• The Alliance Party had a slightly RomanCatholicimage with the man in the street.• One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.• This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street.• Like most of the women in the street, Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.• He picked up the women in the street.
4.(right) up your streetBritish EnglishBrESUITABLE exactly right for you 刚好适合某人
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(right) up your street• This sort of thing should be right up your street.• So, if that soundsup your street, get your PeakPerformancesubscription in soon!• Mrs Marriot was a woman up our street who used to sell things in her front room.
5streets ahead (of somebody/something)British EnglishBrE informalBETTER much better than someone or something else (比其他人/物)好得多
James is streets ahead of the rest of the class at reading.
詹姆斯在阅读方面远远超过班里的其他同学。
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streets ahead (of somebody/something)• The Scandinavian countries are already streets ahead in this area.• And streets ahead ... Bonnie brings a touch of magic to a Broadway favourite.• Sorrytimes, indeed, for Coventry, whose Midland rivals are streets ahead in strength in depth.• As pure driving machines, there is no realcomparison - the Mercedes is streets ahead.
the main street (=the biggest street in a town or village) 大街,主要商业街
They drove slowly along the main street.
他们开车沿着大街缓缓行驶。
the high street British EnglishBrE (=the main street with shops) 大街,主要商业街
nI bought this coat at a shop on the high street.
a shopping streetBritish EnglishBrE (=with a lot of shops) 商业街
nThis is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
a residential street (=with houses, not shops) 居住区街道
na quiet residential street
a one-way street (=in which you can only drive in one direction) 单行道
nHe was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
a side/back street (=a small quiet street near the main street) 偏僻的街道
nThe restaurant is tucked away in a side street.
winding streets (=streets that turn in many directions) 曲折的街道
nWe spent hours exploring the town’s winding streets.
cobbled streets (=with a surface made from round stones) 铺着鹅卵石的街道
nThe cobbled streets were closed to cars.
verbs
cross the street (=walk to the other side) 穿过街道
She crossed the street and walked into the bank.
她穿过马路,走进银行。
street + NOUN
a street corner (=a place where streets meet) 街角
Youths were standing around on street corners.
几个年轻人站在街角。
a street light/lamp 街灯
It was getting dark, and the street lamps were already on.
天色渐暗,街灯已经亮起。
street crime/violence (=when people are attacked in the street) 街头罪案/暴力
nYoung men are most likely to be victims of street crime.
nstreet clothes (=ordinary clothes, not a special uniform or costume)
She changed into her street clothes and left the theatre.
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street• They live on ClayStreet.• York, among many towns which have pedestrianised their centres, has paved many of its streets without adverseeffect.• Our street was just a row of brickterraced houses.• She had lived in the same street in London all her life.• Across the street, on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields church, there was movement.• I imagine him marching-no, swanning-around the streets of his beloved Manchester as he talks to me.• Claudia, standing by the window, looking down at the street, knew the moment he stepped over the threshold.• Victoria can't walk down the street without someone recognizing her.• He heaved his bulk round, but saw only the tightly wedged backs of the mob out in the street.• He pointed to the side of the street.• There were stores on both sides of the street.• We need more police on the streets.• He's out there running the streets of Annapolis, just before dawn.• Pablo lovedwandering through the streets of Barcelona.• I went straight back to the streetcorner where I'd lost him and started the slowcruise.• WallStreet is a famousfinancialcenter in New York.
down the street• I had Carradine walled up and down the street several times, acting suspiciously.• Its headlights suddenly light up the pavement farther down the street he is walking on.• Though rationing was in effect, Tish managed to get a hugesteak from an admiringgrocerdown the street.• A car or two, the wrong ones, took off down the street in the direction of the town.• There was the jade-green cockatoo on his orangeperch, gazing pensively down the street.• When I finished up at Mrs James's, I ran down the street and watched the sky.• I walk down the streets of New York, the Village, and they stop and they talk, they want autographs.• C., can you walk down the street and bump into a row of newspaperboxeshalf a block long?
ADJECTIVE | VERB + STREET | STREET + VERB | STREET + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤broad, wide寬闊的街道▸➤narrow狹窄的街道▸➤bustling, busy, congested, crowded熙熙攘攘的/繁忙的/擁堵的/擁擠的街道▸➤pedestrian, pedestrianized (BrE) 步行街◇It really irritates me when people ride bicycles in pedestrian streets.看到有人在步行街騎自行車,我會很惱火。➤deserted, desolate, empty, lonely, quiet空無一人的/冷清的/空蕩蕩的/寂寥的/寧靜的街道▸➤noisy喧鬧的街道▸➤dark, darkened黑暗的街道▸➤bright, well-lit明亮的街道▸➤dim, dimly lit, gloomy昏暗的街道▸➤winding彎彎曲曲的街道▸➤steep坡度大的街道▸➤cobbled, cobblestone, paved鋪有卵石的街道;鋪過路面的街道▸➤unpaved路面未鋪砌的街道▸➤clean乾淨的街道▸➤dirty, dusty, filthy, muddy骯髒的/塵土飛揚的/污穢的/泥濘的街道➤rainy雨天的街道➤flooded被水淹沒的街道▸➤dangerous, mean, unsafe危險的街道;貧街陋巷;不安全的街道◇He grew up on the mean streets of one of the city's toughest areas.他在城市中治安最差的一個地區的陋巷中長大。➤leafy, tree-lined綠葉滿目的/綠樹成蔭的街道▸➤one-way, two-way單向通行的/雙向通行的街道▸➤dead-end (especially NAmE) 死路▸➤main, principal主要街道▸➤back(usually backstreet) , side偏僻小巷;小街◇a rundown house in the backstreets of Cairo開羅偏僻小巷裏一座破敗的房屋◇a bar in a side street off the Champs-Élysées離香榭麗舍大街不遠的一條小巷裏的酒吧➤city, village (especially BrE) 城市/鄉村街道▸➤right正確的街道▸➤wrong錯誤的街道◇You've taken the wrong street.你走錯路了。➤shopping (especially BrE) 商業街◇the town's main shopping street該鎮主要的商業街➤high, main (NAmE) (市鎮商業區的)大街;主要街道◇Sales on the UK high street are in decline.英國商業街的銷售額在下降。◇high-street retailers商業大街上的零售商◇He works at a small store on Main Street.他在商業大街上的一家小商店裏工作。➤downtown, residential, suburban, urban鬧市區/居民區/郊區/城區街道VERB + STREET➤go along, go down, go up, take, turn down, turn into, turn up沿着⋯街道走;走⋯街道;轉向⋯街道◇Take the second street on the right after the bridge.過了橋之後走右邊第二條街。◇We turned down a dead-end street by mistake.我們誤進了一條死路。➤cross橫穿街道▸➤block, block off, clog, clog up (BrE) 堵塞街道➤cordon off (especially BrE) 封鎖街道▸➤patrol在街道上巡邏◇The police have been patrolling the streets in this area since the murder.自謀殺案發生以後,警察一直在這個地區的街道上巡邏。➤stroll, stroll down, stroll through在街上閒逛➤walk, walk down走在街上▸➤cruise, prowl, roam, wander在街上漫步/徘徊/遊蕩/閒逛◇Gangs roamed the streets at night.夜晚,一幫幫混混兒在街上遊蕩。➤crowd, fill, flood, line, pack, throng塞滿街道;擠滿街道;排在街道兩旁◇Spectators lined the streets.觀眾在街道兩旁排列等候。➤clear清理街道◇Police were told to clear the streets of drug dealers before the Olympics.警察受命在奧運會前清除街上的毒販。➤litter亂丟在街上◇Dead bodies littered the streets.街上死屍遍地。➤widen拓寬街道STREET + VERB➤go, lead, run街道通(向);街道延伸▸➤bend, curve, turn街道偏轉;街道拐彎▸➤be lined with sth沿街有⋯◇streets lined with cafes咖啡館林立的街道➤be packed with sb, teem with sth街道上擠滿了⋯/到處都是⋯◇The streets were packed with people shopping.街上擠滿了購物的人群。◇The streets are teeming with traffic.街上車來車往。➤be named sth, be named after sb/sth街道取名為⋯/以⋯命名◇Mozart is remembered by a street named after him.為紀念莫扎特,一條街道以他的名字命名。STREET + NOUN➤corner街角▸➤map, plan街道地圖/平面圖▸➤layout, pattern街道佈局◇the dense street pattern of the old town老鎮密集的街道佈局➤name, number, sign街道名稱/門牌號碼/標牌◇Most street names were changed under the new regime.在新政權下多數街名都改了。◇The houses had no street numbers on.這些房子沒有門牌號。➤lamp, light, lighting路燈;街道照明➤crime, gang街頭犯罪/流氓團夥➤punk, thug (both especially NAmE) 街頭混混兒/惡棍▸➤people (especially NAmE) 流落街頭的人▸➤attack, battle, brawl, fight, fighting, robbery, violence街頭襲擊;巷戰;街頭鬥毆;街頭搶劫;街頭暴力◇He suffered extensive injuries in a street attack.他在一起街頭襲擊事件中多處受傷。◇street fighting between police and stone-throwing youths警察與投擲石塊的青年之間的巷戰➤demonstration, protest街頭示威/抗議▸➤fair, festival, party, procession街頭集市/慶祝活動/聚會/遊行▸➤cleaner, sweeper街道清潔工▸➤door (especially BrE) 街門◇There were photographers outside the street door so she used a back entrance.臨街的門外有人拍照,所以她走了後門。➤market街頭市場▸➤entertainer, entertainment, musician, performer, theatre/theater街頭藝人/表演/音樂家/演員/戲劇▸➤dealer, pedlar/peddler, seller, trader, vendor (especially NAmE) 攤販;街頭小販▸➤hustler (especially NAmE) 街頭騙子◇Tourists need to be wary of street hustlers near the station.遊客要警惕車站附近的街頭騙子。➤selling, trading (BrE) 街頭販賣/交易◇people engaged in informal street selling街上的無證商販◇He pleaded guilty to illegal street trading.他承認自己非法在街頭販賣東西。➤cred, credibility (bothinformal) (城市前衞青年認同的)街頭聲望◇His spell in prison gained him a lot of street cred.他的鐵窗生涯使他贏得了極高的街頭聲望。➤smarts (NAmE, informal) , wisdom城市生活的頭腦/智慧➤clothes, culture, fashion, slang街頭衣着/文化/時尚/俚語◇the street culture of working-class youth工薪階層青年的街頭文化➤life街頭生活➤scene街景◇a painting of a typical Parisian street scene描繪典型的巴黎街景的油畫➤collection (BrE) 街頭募捐◇The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.這家慈善機構正在街頭募捐,以幫助當地醫院。➤child, kid (informal) , urchin街頭流浪兒◇a charity set up to house street children為收留街頭流浪兒而建立的慈善機構➤boy, girl街頭男孩;妓女▸➤hustler (informal, especially NAmE) , prostitute街頭男妓/妓女▸➤price, value街頭黑市價◇drugs with a street value of £5 million街頭黑市價值達 500 萬英鎊的毒品PREPOSITION➤across a/the street馬路對面◇He could see her across the street.他能看見馬路對面的她。➤along a/the street沿着街道◇They walked along the street.他們沿着街道步行。➤down a/the street, up a/the street在街道那頭/這頭◇A band was playing a little way down the street.一個樂隊正在街上不遠處演奏。◇She lives just up the street here.她就住在街這邊。➤in a/the street在街上◇She parks her car in the street.她把車停在了街上。◇A couple were arguing out in the street.一對夫婦在街上爭吵。◇We live in Barker Street. (BrE) 我們住在巴克大街。➤into a/the street進入街道◇She stepped out into the street.她邁步走到街上。◇He turned into a side street. (BrE) 他拐進了一條小巷。➤off a/the street街邊上◇a club just off William Street就在威廉大街邊上的俱樂部◇a plan to keep teenagers off the streets不讓青少年流落街頭的計劃➤on a/the street在街頭◇people dealing drugs on the street街頭毒品販子◇I was living on 10th Street off Hudson. (NAmE) 我住在哈得孫河附近的第十大街上。➤on the streets, out on the streets在街頭◇Thousands of people were out on the streets for the protest.數千人走上街頭表示抗議。➤onto a/the street到街頭◇She was thrown onto the street.她被趕到大街上。◇He turned onto a side street. (NAmE) 他拐到一條小巷裏。➤through the streets穿過街道◇He wandered through the streets of Calcutta.他漫步在加爾各答的大街上。PHRASES➤above street level, at street level, below street level(樓層)與街面齊平;在街面以上;在街面以下➤the end of the street, the top of the street街道盡頭▸➤the other side of the street街道的另一邊▸➤the street on the left, the street on the right左邊的/右邊的街道➤hit the streets (= start to be available or seen in public)開始出售;被公開◇Her shocking autobiography is about to hit the streets.她那本驚人的自傳即將公開出版。➤take to the streets走上街頭◇Argentinians took to the streets in protest.阿根廷人走上街頭表示抗議。