alley
英 ['ælɪ]
美['æli]
- n. 小巷；小路；小径
- n. (Alley)人名；(英)阿利
词态变化
复数: alleys;
助记提示
1. 词义影响：alley => aisle.
2. 由于在古法语里面它们词形相近而使其词义受其影响。
3. Alley：暗里。黑暗笼罩下的小路----小巷，小径。
2. 由于在古法语里面它们词形相近而使其词义受其影响。
3. Alley：暗里。黑暗笼罩下的小路----小巷，小径。
中文词源
alley 小巷
单词amble的异体。
英英释意
- 1. a narrow street with walls on both sides
- 2. a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
英文词源
- alley
- alley: [14] Alley is related to French aller ‘go’. Old French aler (which came from Latin ambulāre ‘walk’, source of English amble and ambulance) produced the derived noun alee ‘act of walking’, hence ‘place where one walks, passage’.
=> amble, ambulance - alley (n.)
- mid-14c., "passage in a house; open passage between buildings; walkway in a garden," from Old French alee (13c., Modern French allée) "a path, passage, way, corridor," also "a going," from fem. of ale, past participle of aler "to go," which ultimately may be a contraction of Latin ambulare "to walk," or from Gallo-Roman allari, a back-formation from Latin allatus "having been brought to" [Barnhart]. Compare sense evolution of gate. Applied by c. 1500 to "long narrow enclosure for playing at bowls, skittles, etc." Used in place names from c. 1500.
The word is applied in American English to what in London is called a mews, and also is used there especially of a back-lane parallel to a main street (1729). To be up someone's alley "in someone's neighborhood" (literally or figuratively) is from 1931; alley-cat attested by 1890.
词组搭配
up one's alley
见 street 条 up one's street
up (one's) alley【非正式用语】
Compatible with one's interests or qualifications
相称，合口味：与某人的兴趣或才能相称的
an assignment that is right up your alley.
一项正好让你去发挥才能的任务
实用场景例句
- a narrow/dark alley
- 狭窄的 / 黑暗的小巷
牛津词典
- The line of reasoning will only lead you up another blind alley.
- 那种推理方法只会把你引进另一条死胡同.
《简明英汉词典》
- Bob did not take the job because it was a blind alley.
- 鲍勃没有接受此职,因为它没有发展前途.
期刊摘选
- LJ and a friend ride their bikes through a dark alley in Chicago.
- 芝加哥城,LJ和一个朋友骑着自行车进了的一个阴暗的巷子.
期刊摘选
- That's for sure. All sports are right up his alley.
- 那是肯定的. 所有运动他都擅长.
期刊摘选
- You will enjoy Piper's Alley in Old Town.
- 你会喜爱旧城里的那条吹笛人小巷.
辞典例句
- No Spaniard had been seen. Nobody had entered or left the alley. Everything was auspicious.
- 西班牙人没露面, 巷子里也没人走动, 一切平安无事.
英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
- Rewi Alley was brought up in a strict family and in a rural setting.
- 艾黎童年在严格的家庭教育下成长,周围是一派田园风光.
期刊摘选
- We live in the same alley.
- 我们住在同一条小巷里.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The street was a blind alley.
- 这条街道是条死胡同.
英汉文学
- As a result, the police in plain clothes, followed two people quietly into the alley.
- 于是, 身着便衣的民警, 悄悄地跟踪两个人进了胡同.
期刊摘选
- Ron Artest throws half court alley oops, to himself.
- 阿泰刚过半场就跟自己玩空接.
期刊摘选
- He ditched the cops by turning off his lights and driving down an alley.
- 他关掉车灯,朝巷子深处驶去,想用这种办法逃开警察.
辞典例句
- Alley cultural shift, decomposition, transmission to a new carrier.
- 胡同文化会转移 、 分解 、 传承到新的载体上.
期刊摘选
- The small alley, the small alley It'stink to high heaven, no one is interested.
- 小胡同, 小巷子呢?臭气熏天, 无人问津.
期刊摘选
- This time we can go to the Taipei Palace Museum, and Snake Alley.
- 这次我们可以挑一天去台北故宫博物院, 再去华西街瞧瞧.
期刊摘选
- This alley is where I lived when I was young.
- 这条里巷就是我小时候居住的地方.
期刊摘选
- The thugs jumped him in a dark alley.
- 在黑巷里歹徒们突然攻击他.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The job is right down your alley.
- 这个工作正适合你的才能.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- I was ready to sly out the alley door.
- 我准备从那边小门溜出去.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The blind alley ended in a brick wall.
- 这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.
- 山穷水尽,豁然开朗.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Everyone wanted to bowl, hence everyone wanted to open a bowling alley.
- 大家都想玩保龄球，因此大家都想开保龄球馆。
柯林斯例句
- The Internet has proved a blind alley for many firms.
- 事实证明，因特网对许多公司而言是一条行不通的路。
柯林斯例句
- The side alley was walled off from the back garden.
- 侧巷和后花园之间用墙隔开了。
柯林斯例句
- He wheeled his bike into the alley at the side of the house.
- 他把自行车推进了房子旁的小巷中。
柯林斯例句
- In any event, the bowling alley restaurant proved quite acceptable.
- 无论如何，那个保龄球场的餐厅证明还是很不错的。
柯林斯例句