| 单词 | street |
| 释义 | street (striːt ) Word forms: streets 1. countable noun A1 A street is a road in a city, town, or village, usually with houses along it. He lived at 66 Bingfield Street. Boppard is a small, quaint town with narrow streets. Synonyms: road, lane, avenue, terrace 2. countable noun [usu on/off N] You can use street or streets when talking about activities that happen out of doors in a town rather than inside a building. Changing money on the street is illegal–always use a bank. Their aim is to raise a million pounds to get the homeless off the streets. ...a New York street gang. 3. adjective A1 Someone who is street has a way of dressing or behaving that is associated with urban culture. [informal] 4. See also back street, civvy street, Downing Street, Fleet Street, high street, Wall Street 5. be streets ahead of sb phrase If someone is streets ahead of you, they are much better at something than you are. He was streets ahead of the other contestants. [+ of] 6. the man in the street phrase If you talk about the man in the street or the woman in the street, you mean ordinary people in general. The average man or woman in the street doesn't know very much about immune disorders. 7. up sb's street phrase If a job or activity is up your street, it is the kind of job or activity that you are very interested in. [British] She loved it, this was just up her street. Idioms: the man in the street an ordinary, average person But how do these massive changes appear to the man in the street? Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers something is right up your street [mainly British] said to mean that something is exactly the kind of thing you like or know about Actor Roy Barraclough has taken on a role that's right up his street, as Sherlock Holmes' bumbling sidekick Watson. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: clean a street Some would be forced to clean the streets with community sentences of up to 300 hours. The Sun While it was important to praise those who cleaned the streets afterwards, the harsh sentences for looters mattered more. Times, Sunday Times One runner said she was left with burns after running through a chemical spray used to clean the streets. The Sun His smallish media mob - featuring fuzzy microphones, aides, cameras and hangers-on - headed towards the much bigger broom mob, waiting to start cleaning the street. Times, Sunday Times Twenty people cleaned the streets afterwards. Times, Sunday Times And aren't houses on a dark street just houses, not 'sleeping ogres'? Times, Sunday Times Who comes toward me on this dark street? Smithsonian It was a long, dark street, and she appeared to be in some distress. Times, Sunday Times From the outside, it looks like you dream a restaurant will: small, hugging a corner, glowing on the dark street like a lantern. Times, Sunday Times We walk off an affluent thoroughfare, down a dark street and into the favela. Times, Sunday Times The original dirt street was bricked in 1910. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She was remembered for gravel-surfacing of the town's dirt streets and securing the first electric, water, and gas systems for the community. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Towns and cities themselves were slowly bricking their dirt streets, and some had electric streetcar lines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The towns and cities themselves slowly paved their dirt streets, often using brick, and many had electric streetcar lines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has dirt streets, a police station and a market. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I used to love watching the changing of the seasons, the empty streets and grey skies of the off-peak months followed by the first visitors of the summer. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It was past ten and the lamps were being lit in the empty streets. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (2006) We drive back to our compound through empty streets before the curfew. Times, Sunday Times (2008) For the next 40 years she was a familiar sight on the leafy streets of Chiswick, west London. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Yes, it could be that a touch of Ibiza has crept into the leafy streets of South London. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It's a modern home on a leafy street lined with elegant period houses. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Hough has been called a premier motorcycling journalist and the author of one of the most widely respected books on safe street riding. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Things like safe streets, good schools, strong families, nonintrusive government, and communities where people care for one another. Christianity Today How complacent we are about our peaceful country, stable democracy and largely safe streets. Times, Sunday Times From the mid-19th century, state power grew - rightly - to guarantee clean water, safe streets and legal rights. Times, Sunday Times Networks of safe streets and paths conveniently connect every destination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Users sign in with their name, email address and street address. Chicago Sun-Times You could type the name of a town, a postcode, or a street address in almost 200 countries. Times, Sunday Times As with the 1847 act, the council may require the occupier to mark the official street address on the property and renew existing markings. Times, Sunday Times A street address, a phone number and named individuals responsible for the content are all proof of good faith (and are legal requirements in some countries). Times, Sunday Times A street address, a phone number? Times, Sunday Times Ultimately, the police arrived and threw her off the street car. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That left four cents out of the quarter, for the street car ride back home. Houston Chronicle He helped map out the first street car grid and water and sewer systems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The last of the sand dunes and coastal scrub that once dominated the area were built over to create a street car suburb. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The hospital had 40 beds, a private ambulance, long-distance telephone service and was located on a street car line. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The most vulnerable services include libraries, sports centres, street cleaning and waste collection. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The public will also be able to decide whether to put up charges for rubbish collection or outsource their street cleaning. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Councils in England spend over 700 million a year on street cleaning and the scheme could cut the bills by millions. The Sun (2016) However, buyers will pay a premium for untainted products delivered straight to their door, avoiding the risks of buying from a street dealer. Times, Sunday Times There's sometimes a sense of safety in buying something online instead of from a 'traditional' street dealer. Times, Sunday Times Street dealers are likely to be prioritised over crime bosses because they are more likely to come to police attention, it adds. Times,Sunday Times Rather, it’s the low-level street dealers who should be alarmed. Globe and Mail The street dealers, savvy to the risks, are also using increasingly ingenious places to hide their caches. Times, Sunday Times She started out in classical guitar, but at about age 17 became a street musician and dropped out of high school. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The song tells the story of a street musician pleading for someone to give him money. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They hired a cafeteria worker, a janitor, a street musician, and interns to pose as the new task force for reviewing the headquarters plans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He studied music as an enka-shi or a street musician. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It tells the story of a war veteran who has become a street musician after losing one leg. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This not only reduces heat loss through the glass but also cuts draughts around the edge of the frame, as well as muffling street noise. Times,Sunday Times They rated street noise, and din from passing trains and aircraft their least favourite sounds. The Sun The room might be small, the beds twin and the bathroom a touch 1970s (beige tiling), but it's high enough to escape street noise. Times, Sunday Times I've always grown up in noisy places on main roads, so the street noise never really bothered me that much. Times, Sunday Times Real runners listen to the wind, nature and street noise. Times, Sunday Times These streets provide pedestrians a calm environment aside from the main street traffic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The 20-foot high barrier continues onto land, where three large doors allow street traffic to pass through during calm seas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1937, the arched stone pillars over embankments were extended from one to two spans (each side) to accommodate increased street traffic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After the storm battered the island, rail and street traffic in the northern part of the island was halted due to mudslides. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most of them have disappeared or were moved onto a fully dedicated right-of-way due to increasing street traffic and safety concerns. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sales of evening newspapers from a street vendor have shrunk. Times, Sunday Times (2010) He paused on the way only long enough to buy an oil cake from a lone street vendor, and devour it. THE CURSE OF CHALION (2001) We could smell goat meat roasting on a street vendor's spit. Times, Sunday Times (2014) But why, they would ask, were we strolling the streets, looking around, then catching a knowing glance at one another and mumbling to ourselves? Christianity Today Guests will be able to stroll the streets of the kingdom, which will also feature restaurants, attractions and of course the inevitable shops. The Sun I picture myself strolling the streets, nodding nonchalantly to the chief executives, heads of state and people carrying yoga mats. Times, Sunday Times As well as building sandcastles on the beach on holiday, did you also stroll the streets of one of our seaside resorts to peek in the estate agent's window? Times, Sunday Times There are parking attendants strolling the streets, normally in yellow coats, so make sure one of these contact you before leaving your car. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even harder to write about a spaceship landing in a suburban street and sound fresh. Times, Sunday Times Councils will switch off thousands of suburban street lamps after midnight to cut energy bills and meet climate change targets. Times, Sunday Times A shadow passes overhead and the power goes out in a suburban street. Times, Sunday Times Eventually we turned left down a neat suburban street and there it was. Times, Sunday Times The car, its headlights off, roared away along the dark and otherwise empty suburban street and disappeared into the night. Times, Sunday Times The fortunate ones get agency work sweeping the streets, working in carwashes or doing construction work. Times, Sunday Times He said that he had already applied to empty rubbish bins or sweep the streets but had so far failed to find work. Times, Sunday Times Part of his penance was to sweep the streets of the city in the glare of publicity. Times, Sunday Times She's not the only celeb forced to sweep the streets. The Sun He had come to sweep the streets and to make a point. Times,Sunday Times They are adaptable birds, and have become much more evident in town streets and gardens in recent years. Times, Sunday Times Our town streets are full of families, making it hard to keep a two-metre gap; on the moor it's easy to keep 200 metres apart. Times,Sunday Times Waxwings are coming to trees in town streets farther south. Times,Sunday Times On town streets, gingko trees are a rich golden-yellow, and the fan-shaped leaves are starting to fall, a week or two earlier than last year. Times, Sunday Times A nostalgic atmosphere covers the narrow town streets and ancient structures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 My wife and I nervously looked right and then left as we scanned the pleasant tree-lined street for house numbers. Christianity Today (2000) Only a short distance separated Iris from her residence in a quiet tree-lined street divided in two by a homely canal. MURKY SHALLOWS (2002) Route Follow wide tree-lined street uphill. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Perched on a hill in a tree-lined street, they soon made it home. The Sun (2012) The largely empty building blocks were perfect places to train in urban street fighting. Times, Sunday Times So prepare to cringe tonight as they immerse themselves in the achingly cool world of urban street art. The Sun Zoom in on an urban street and you can overlay the bus stops; tap on one and you see the routes that use it, plus timetables. Times, Sunday Times But the expanses of parade ground (now lawn) and the landscaped bits between them seem to preclude the neighbourly chumminess of a traditional urban street layout. Times, Sunday Times The interurban fit on a continuum between urban street railways and full-fledged railroads. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I have travelled by old familiar roads awaked from the long nightmare; every village street is aflutter with flags. Times, Sunday Times (2018) Across the sandy track that was the main village street, exuberant bunting flew between bamboo poles. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent (1994) It also has the longest tree-lined village street in the country. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Other youths wander the street smoking crack. Times, Sunday Times Typically, stores and street booths sell hot drinks and musicians wander the street during the afternoon and evening. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was no point in going out to wander the streets. Times, Sunday Times It makes me scared to think he can wander the streets under a new name. The Sun People would wander the streets with hideous wounds. Times, Sunday Times It's a charming, winding street, full of great little shops. Times, Sunday Times Today, a narrow, winding street by the same name runs along the waterfront as a living testimony to the times gone by. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The single slightly winding street of the village has a number of 18th-century houses, and several antique shops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Within the old town there are many narrow winding streets full of historic buildings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The city centre has maintained most of its colonial-era structures, with narrow winding streets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 街 Japanese: 通り |
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