词汇 | the streets |
释义 | the streetsthe 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). 她描写过街头生活的真实景象。 Examples from the Corpus the streets• Hundreds are injured as the streets of Berlin become a battlefield.• Fiats and mopeds clog the streets of Palermo, Ragusa, and the smaller cities.• The Sandinistas were forced into a temporary retreat but returned later with reinforcements to do battle in the streets.• Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence.• In all my years as a producer I've never seen such scenes on the streets of Berlin.• There was a lot of violence, gangs roaming the streets.• For them it was a career or back to the streets or the mines.• Homeless patients receive medication to get well enough to return to the streets where they live until their next psychotic episode. → the streets at street1(1) |
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