alley
alley 英 [ˈæli] 美 [ˈæli]
n. 小巷；小路；胡同
名词复数:alleys
- An alley is a narrow street with walls or buildings on both sides, like the dark alley everyone warns you not to walk down alone.
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- n. 小巷；小路；胡同
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1. We live in the same alley.
我们住在同一条小巷里。
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2. a narrow alley, a dark alley
狭窄的╱黑暗的小巷
- alley (n.1) 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 is of uncertain origin. It might be a contraction of Latin ambulare "to walk" (Watkins, see amble (v.)), or it might be from Gallo-Roman allari, a back-formation from Latin allatus "having been brought to" [Barnhart]. Compare sense evolution of gate.
- alley (n.2) also ally, type of large playing marble (generally one of stone as opposed to terra cotta), 1720, said to be a shortening of alabaster.
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