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 alley ['æli]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 小路, 巷

  1. We tried one idea after the other, but they all seemed to be leading to blind alleys.
    我们想了一个又一个主意,但它们似乎都行不通。
  2. This business is right up my alley.
    这种事情正是我熟悉的。
  3. A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand.
    小街,小巷小街道,小巷,或是这种马车房所在的庭院


alley
[ noun ]
  1. a narrow street with walls on both sides

  2. <noun.artifact>
  3. a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins

  4. <noun.artifact>


Alley \Al"ley\, n.; pl. {Alleys}. [OE. aley, alley, OF. al['e]e,
F. all['e]e, a going, passage, fr. OE. aler, F. aller, to go;
of uncertain origin: cf. Prov. anar, It. andare, Sp. andar.]
1. A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden
or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered
way.

I know each lane and every alley green. --Milton.

2. A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a
public street. --Gay.

3. A passageway between rows of pews in a church.

4. (Persp.) Any passage having the entrance represented as
wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of
length.

5. The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a
printing office.


Alley \Al"ley\, n.; pl. {Alleys}. [A contraction of alabaster,
of which it was originally made.]
A choice taw or marble. --Dickens.

  1. Most popular were top-ranked Power Alley Electronic Bowling by Marchon, an electronic extravaganza designed to turn a playroom into a bowling alley, and the Sound Machine Water Cannon fire engine by Nylint.
  2. Guessing from my map and the sun, I head down an alley of small shops.
  3. "They're called alley entrepreneurs," he said. "Some of these people have developed shrewd operations.
  4. "Before that, cheese and gravy was right down my alley and it was always red meat," he says. "Now we shop very carefully." "As you can probably tell," he says, "I'm a type A personality.
  5. The escapee fled through an alley and pulled courthouse employee Carol Smiley from her parked car.
  6. "Here at dusk, we kindle a thousand points of light _ our own thousand points of light _ to say that we will never again accept the darkness of back alley despair," said Ms. Michelman, who went to San Francisco after the Los Angeles rally.
  7. Reporters gathering in a dilapidated neighborhood for a news conference about drug abuse watched in shock as a gun battle erupted in an alley across the street.
  8. A few days before her Senate-race loss, Rep. Lynn Martin stood in a Chicago alley and argued with a man who said he was disgusted with her TV ads.
  9. This high-price strategy might ultimately prove a blind alley.
  10. "If a lot of people come, the air is not so fresh," he added, while walking through the deserted exercise room, three-lane bowling alley and billiards room.
  11. Classmates still remember his birthday parties, including one at a bowling alley rented for the occasion where Edgar, a fifth-grader, bought cigarettes from a vending machine on the sly.
  12. Her baby, born the day before Christmas, was found Saturday in a grocery bag in an alley.
  13. "We've reached the point where the last Arab urchin in the last alley in the last refugee camp is no longer afraid of our government or our army, so of course they attack Jewish children," he told The Associated Press.
  14. Instead of asking Rose to kiss his bride, Lewan said: "The couple will consummate their marriage by rolling the bowling balls down the alley." He left two pins standing, she left five.
  15. We hope we shall see you." Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka is taking his steak-and-chops fare on the road after signing a tentative agreement to transform a bowling alley into a copy of his popular restaurant-nightclub.
  16. The money is disbursed monthly at offices such as the Huanggu District Labor Service Co., which is down a narrow alley in northern Shenyang.
  17. It could be a gambling casino, a condominium, a bowling alley, a thousand-screen multiplex movie theater, somebody's corporate headquarters.
  18. Later Monday, Independence Day revelers gathered at a city swimming pool watched in horror as a carload of youths screaming gang slogans roared through an alley bordering the pool, shooting two youths as they went.
  19. "You see (criminals) at the end of an alley, and they disappear before you can always get to them.
  20. Mr. Broadhurst was quoted as saying he and the two women left soon thereafter in his car, by the rear alley.
  21. One break came April 1 when a witness spotted a van parked in an alley shortly after a tree theft occurred at Long's Garden Center. Police searched the van and found $2,100 in evergreens.
  22. A $35,000 BMW the couple was driving was discovered in a downtown alley with the engine running, police said.
  23. The 78-year-old anti-nuclear activist considered the lecture right up her political alley: "He mentioned every single trouble spot and the nonsensical things our government is doing all over the world.
  24. Their ransacked luxury auto was found in an alley in downtown Chicago with the motor still running, leading to fears of foul play.
  25. Not far from the hurly-burly of Pigalle and the Moulin Rouge is a haven of peace and quiet tucked away at the end of an unpaved, ivy-covered alley.
  26. Bush is expected to attend services at this Protestant church hidden behind high stone walls along a narrow hutong, or alley.
  27. They can't sell that here. Along the alley two blonde Russians trade telescopes, cameras, costume jewellery and watches.
  28. "I picked it up in an alley behind my house," she says.
  29. The men drove him to an alley behind the gallery and then ordered him to go unlock the front door.
  30. James Ferguson said as he came out of an alley, holding a flashlight. "We're working around the clock.
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