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street

英 [striːt] 美[strit]

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近义词road thoroughfare

n. 街道
adj. 街道的
n. (Street)人名；(英、葡)斯特里特；(德)施特雷特

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中文词源

street 街道

来自古英语 straet,街道，大路，来自 Proto-Germanic*strato,街道，来自拉丁语 via strata,路面，铺好的路，阴性格于 stratus,展开的，铺开的，过去分词格于 sternere,展开，铺开，词源同 stratum,structure.

英英释意

1. a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings;: "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street"

2. the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel;: "be careful crossing the street"

3. the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction;: "she tried to keep her children off the street"

4. a situation offering opportunities;: "he worked both sides of the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street"

5. people living or working on the same street;: "the whole street protested the absence of street lights"

英文词源

street: street: [OE] Etymologically, a street is a road that has been ‘spread’ – with paving stones, that is. A ‘paved’ road, in other words. The term was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic from Latin strāta, short for via strāta ‘paved road’. Strāta was the feminine form of strātus, the past participle of sternere ‘spread out’ (source of English strata, stratify, etc). The related Germanic forms are German strasse and Dutch straat, while the term is also preserved in the Romance languages, in Italian strada, which was borrowed by Romanian as strada.
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street (n.): Old English stret (Mercian, Kentish), stræt (West Saxon) "street, high road," from Late Latin strata, used elliptically for via strata "paved road," from fem. past participle of Latin sternere "lay down, spread out, pave," from PIE *stre-to- "to stretch, extend," from root *stere- "to spread, extend, stretch out" (see structure (n.)).

One of the few words in use in England continuously from Roman times. An early and widespread Germanic borrowing (Old Frisian strete, Old Saxon strata, Middle Dutch strate, Dutch straat, Old High German straza, German Strasse, Swedish stråt, Danish sträde "street"). The Latin is also the source of Spanish estrada, Old French estrée, Italian strada.

"The normal term in OE for a paved way or Roman road, later extended to other roads, urban streets, and in SE dialects to a street of dwellings, a straggling village or hamlet" [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]. Originally of Roman roads (Watling Street, Icknield Street). "In the Middle Ages, a road or way was merely a direction in which people rode or went, the name street being reserved for the made road" [Weekley].

Used since c. 1400 to mean "the people in the street;" modern sense of "the realm of the people as the source of political support" dates from 1931. The street for an especially important street is from 1560s (originally of London's Lombard-street). Man in the street "ordinary person, non-expert" is attested from 1831. Street people "the homeless" is from 1967; expression on the street "homeless" is from 1852. Street smarts is from 1971; street-credibility is from 1979. Street-sweeper as an occupation is from 1848.

同义词辨析

path, road, way, street, highway, avenue, motorway, route, lane, pavement, trail

这些名词均有"路"之意。

path：多指由人或动物在田间、小丘或树丛中经常走动而踩出的小路，也指公园或花园等供人走的小径。

road：指连接两地间供行人或车辆使用的广阔平坦的大道，多指公路，也可用于引申意义。

way：普通用词，含义广泛，可指各种路、道或通道，也可指抽象的道路。

street：尤指城市中的道路，往往一侧或两侧有高大建筑物；还可指城市小镇、近郊可供人、车、马行走的平坦道路。

highway：通常指市区外可以通行各种机动车辆的交通干线。

avenue：在美国，指城市中一侧或两侧建筑物林立的大道或马路；而在英国则常指通住乡村大住宅、私人大庄园或两旁栽树的道路。

motorway：高速公路，新词，特指为车辆快速通行而修的专线，美语为freeway或expressway。

route：指从此处通往彼处的路线、路程等。

lane：指农村或城镇的小道或小径，也指小巷。

pavement：在英国，多指街道两旁的人行道，而美国人常用sidewalk表示人行道。

trail：指人或兽在森林、荒野或山中踩出的小径或崎岖小道。

考试真题

Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets.

At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.

Woolworths is one of the best known names on the British High Street.

The overthrown giants of Wall Street took the biggest knock, with average pay cuts of 38% and median bonuses of zero.

It is pretty much a one-way street.

And when joggers (慢跑者) jog, they don't run the streets.

She went to New York and invested on Wall Street.

She invested in stocks and shares on Wall Street

Not paying attention to his driving, McLaughlin turned right on main street in 33rd street and hit Volkswagen Rabbit.

They are really pretty little towns with lots of old housesand beautiful tree-lined streets.

Farmington, Utah, is a more pleasant community since a local girls' 4-H club improved Main Street.

The experience on Main Street stimulated self-improvement, and encouraged members to take pride in their home grounds and the total community

What do we learn about Main Street in Farmington?

"When they see that carrier back out on the street," Swigart said, "that's the first sign to them that life is starting to return to normal.

After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery.

At the most cutting-edge retail stores —Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.

Later, in his cook books, he would often include a sketch of himself, so that people on the street would be able to recognize—and admire—him.

Police frequent the area day and night, as two months ago, a young man was shot just down the street.

The note inside the bottle said, "Return to 419 Ocean Street and receive a reward of $150 from Richard and Tina pierce, owners of the Beachcomber Motel."

The sight of a mailman on the street is a reassuring sign of life becoming normal again.

To this end, Aclima has been collaborating with Google's Street view system.

Woolworths is one of the best known names on the British high Street.

With sufficient will in Downing Street this would have been done already.

By last year, Wall Street traders, bankers and those who deal in real estate generated 21% of the national income, double their share in the 1950s.

Newspapers relay daily accounts of goal-setting prevalent in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street , yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-trumpeted practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis , and unethical （不道德的）behavior in general.

There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.

This week's program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire.

A car that takes off from London street and lands in another random street is unlikely to happen," says Prof.

Or head out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy.

The combination of computational power and engineering advances will eventually enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, widespread use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-indus

We do random things like asking people in the street questions and testing sports clothing.

with sufficient will in Downing Street this would have been done already.

An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: a man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street.

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money.

But with these tips, your first man-on-the-street interview experience can be easy.

Chamber orchestra: the orchestra plays at memorial hall at 1406 elm street, which offers several concerts from march through June.

David Dominoni, of Glasgow university, said that light from street lamps, takeaway signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clocks, leading to them being wide awake when they should be asleep.

Drinking my iced coffee, I ran my fingers along the streets from the hotel to the opera hall.

Each interview that you get on the street shouldn't be longer than ten minutes.

Get rid of the street dirt.

However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities.

In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck.

It is a truly delightful place, which looks the same as it must have done 100 years ago with its winding streets and pretty cottages.

It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

It only has one bedroom, but it sounds nice, near lake street.

It was a hot summer day that found me running down the street with a dollar in my sweaty hand.

Jane moved aimlessly down the tree-lined street, not knowing where she was heading.

Newly-built wooden cottages line the street, turning the old town into a dreamland.

Oh, here's one on market street.

On the street or in the park, she had only one thing on her mind: squirrels! She was so joyous that even on the worst days, she could make me smile.

Our mailman will arrive at 89 street, Chicago, 15374 at 5 o'clock, Monday afternoon.

People tend to take pride in keeping everything in their street fresh and inviting.

She told me that some of the children lived with an older lady in a shelter while others slept on the streets.

She'd watch me coming down her street, and by the time I'd biked up to her doorstep, there'd be a cold drink waiting.

Since finishing my studies at harvard and oxford, I've watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying wall street jobs.

The author mentions the joke to show Chicago's streets were extremely muddy.

The city of brussels was covered in snowmen—an impressive scene that told stories on every street corner.

The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty papers left.

The little pupil took his grandma by the arm and walked her across the street.

The man-on-the-street interview is an interview in which a reporter hits the streets with a cameraman to interview people on the sport.

The most obvious thing is that there is much more activity in the streets than in a typical US city.

The night she won olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped.

The streets are clear, and many homes have been rebuilt.

There is a traffic jam on king street.

They performed their first concert in America at CBS Television's 53rd Street Studio.

This new trend of newspapers for " the man on the street " did not begin well.

This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.

This sounds very interesting! It's on South Street.

To think he is sleeping on the streets tonight when he could have stolen the money and paid for a place to stay in.

Wander among a variety of shops selling gifs while enjoying a live music show and nice street entertainment.

We'd love to explore beale street, the official home of the blues, where we'd listen to live music.

When walking down the street, I came across david, when I hadn't seen for years.

When your boss or professor sends you out to do man-on-the-street interviews for a story, think about the topic and develop a list of about ten general questions relating to it.

While the fear hung over my head, there were also signs that I was headed down the right street.

The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

Similarly, some Wall Street investment films armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

He favours out-of-town shopping sites against high streets.

A "town of culture" could be not just about the arts but about honoring a town's peculiarities-helping sustain its high street, supporting local facilities and above all celebrating its people and turn it into action.

As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.

Curbs on business - method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the Federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual- fund as

In its latest survey of CEO pay, The Wall Street Journal finds that "a substantial part" of executive pay is now tied to performance.

similarly, some Wall Street investment firms armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the courts judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is whether it should "reconsider" its State Street Bank ruling.

Their Olaf Street Study, a square of brick-strewn waste ground, is one of the few works here to embrace the commonplaceness that characterises most of our experience of the landscape most of the time.

词组搭配

not in the same street

(Brit. informal)far inferior in terms of ability

(英，非正式)（在能力上）远不能与…相比，比…差得多

on the streets

homeless

无家可归的，沦落街头的

working as a prostitute

卖淫，以卖淫为生

streets ahead

(Brit. informal)greatly superior

(英，非正式)好很多，强得多

the restaurant is streets ahead of its local rivals.
那家饭店远比当地的竞争对手好得多。

up (或right up)one's street (或北美

(informal)well suited to one's tastes, interests, or abilities

(非正式)对…口味的；符合…兴趣的；适合…能力的

this job would be right up your street.
这件工作会非常合你意的。

on the street 或 in the street

Without a job; idle.

没有工作的；闲逛的

Without a home; homeless.

无家的；无家可归的

Out of prison; at liberty.

出狱；自由

实用场景例句

The bank is just across the street.: 银行就在街对过。

to walk along/down/up the street: 沿着街道走

the town's narrow cobbled streets: 镇上狭窄的卵石街道

92nd Street: 第92大街

10 Downing Street: 唐宁街10号

He is used to being recognized in the street .: 街上常有人认出他来，他习以为常了。

a street map/plan of York: 约克街道地图 / 平面图

street theatre/musicians: 街头戏剧 / 乐手

My office is at street level (= on the ground floor) .: 我的办公室在一楼。

It's not safe to walk the streets at night.: 夜间在街上走不安全。

the problems of young people living on the streets: 年轻人流落街头的种种问题

If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago.: 换了我，早就把他赶出家门了。

a country that is streets ahead in the control of environmental pollution: 一个在整治环境污染方面远远走在前面的国家

This job seems right up your street.: 这工作看来对你正合适。

He lived at 66 Bingfield Street...: 他住在宾菲尔德大街 66 号。

Boppard is a small, quaint town with narrow streets.: 博帕德是一个有着许多深巷窄道、古香古色的小镇。

Changing money on the street is illegal — always use a bank...: 在街头兑换货币是违法的——无论何时都应该去银行。

Their aim is to raise a million pounds to get the homeless off the streets.: 他们的目标是筹集 100 万英镑，使那些无家可归者不再流浪街头。

He was streets ahead of the other contestants.: 他比其他参赛选手水平高出一大截。

The average man or woman in the street doesn't know very much about immune disorders.: 普通人一般不是很了解何谓免疫机能紊乱。

She loved it, this was just up her street.: 她喜欢这个，这正中她的意。

The street runs through the town.: 街道横穿这个镇.

Due to our future development in China actively seeking talents for the position.: 为进一步发展公司在中国的业务,现诚聘职位相关人员.

Hold to my hand while we cross the street.: 我们过马路时,你要抓住我的手.

Our street floods whenever we have rain.: 我们的街道一下雨就淹水.

A detailed street plan of the city is inserted in a corner of the area map.: 城市的街道详图印在该区地图的一个角上.