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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?