- [countable] (abbreviation St, st)
a public road in a city or town that has houses and buildings on one side or both sides 大街；街道 - along/down/up the street
I was just walking along the street when it happened. 事情发生时，我正沿着街道走。 She lives just up the street here. 她就住在街这边。 - across the street
The bank is just across the street. 银行就在街对过。 - in the street
He is used to being recognized in the street. 街上常有人认出他来，他习以为常了。 Workers took to the streets in protest. 工人走上街头抗议。 It's not safe to walk the streets at night. 夜间在街上走不安全。 It's a medieval town, with narrow cobbled streets. 这是一个有着狭窄鹅卵石街道的中世纪小镇。 a crowded/residential/quiet/deserted street 拥挤的/住宅区的/安静的/无人居住的街道 92nd Street 第 92 大街 10 Downing Street 唐宁街 10 号 You can find these shops on every street corner. 你可以在每个街角找到这些商店。 The council promised better street lighting and cleaner streets. 市政会承诺改善街道照明和清洁街道。 a street map/plan of York 约克街道地图／平面图 My office is at street level (= on the ground floor). 我的办公室在一楼。
More About roadssee also backstreet, cross street, high street, main street, side street, stop streetroads 路 Roads and streets 公路和街道 - In a town or city, street is the most general word for a road with houses and buildings on one or both sides:
在城镇，street 为最宽泛的用语，指街道： a street map of London. 伦敦街道图
street 不用以指城镇间的道路，而城镇里的街道常称作 Road： Oxford Street 牛津街 Mile End Road. 迈尔恩德路
- Other words used in the names of streets include: Circle, Court, Crescent, Drive, Hill and Way. Avenue suggests a wide street lined with trees. A lane is a narrow street between buildings or, in British English, a narrow country road.
The high street 市镇商业大街 - High street is used in British English, especially as a name, for the main street of a town, where most shops, banks, etc. are:
the shoe shop in the High Street 高街的鞋店 high street shops. 市镇大街的商店
Larger roads 较宽大的公路 - British and American English use different words for the roads that connect towns and cities. Motorways, (for example, the M57) in British English, freeways, highways or interstates, (for example State Route 347, Interstate 94, the Long Island Expressway) in North American English, are large divided roads built for long-distance traffic to avoid towns.
- A ring road (British English)/an outer belt (North American English) is built around a city or town to reduce traffic in the centre. This can also be called a beltway in North American English, especially when it refers to the road around Washington D.C. A bypass passes around a town or city rather than through the centre.
Culture street namesstreet namesIn Britain, main roads outside towns and cities are known by numbers rather than names, although some roads that follow the line of former Roman roads have names, for example, the Fosse Way, which goes from Exeter in the southwest of England to Lincoln in the East Midlands. If a main road passes through a town, that part of it usually has a name, often that of the place which the road goes to, for example, London Road.The main shopping street in a town is often called High Street, or sometimes Market Street. Many streets take their name from a local feature or building. The most common include Bridge Street, Castle Street, Church Street, Mill Street and Station Road. Some names indicate the trade that was carried on in that area in the past. Examples are Candlemaker's Row, Cornmarket, Petticoat Lane and Sheep Street. Many streets laid out in the 19th century were named after famous people or events. These include Albert Street, Cromwell Road, Shakespeare Street, Wellington Street, Trafalgar Road and Waterloo Street. When housing estates are built, the names of the new roads in them are usually all on the same theme. Names of birds or animals are popular. Others are based on the old names for the fields that the houses were built on, for example Tenacres Road, The Slade and Meadow Walk. The name of a road is written on signs at each end of it.Some streets have become so closely identified with people of a particular profession that the street name itself is immediately associated with them. In London, Harley Street has been associated with private doctors and Fleet Street with newspapers.In the US main roads such as interstates and highways are known by numbers. Most towns and cities are laid out on a grid pattern and have long streets with avenues crossing them. Each has a number, for example, 7th Avenue, 42nd Street. The roads are often straight and have square blocks of buildings between them. This makes it easier to find an address and also helps people to judge distance. In Manhattan, for example, Tiffany's is described as being at East 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, which means it is on the corner of those two streets. The distance between West 90th Street and West 60th Street is 30 blocks.As well as having numbers, many streets are named after people, places, local features, history and nature. In Manhattan there is Washington Street, Lexington Avenue, Liberty Street, Church Street and Cedar Street. Some streets are named after the town to which they lead. Streets called Post Road are named because the mail used be delivered along that route. The most important street is often called Main Street. A suburb or subdivision (= group of houses built together in a section of a city) of a city may have streets with similar names. In a subdivision of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, all the names end in ‚wood‘, for example Balsawood Drive, Limewood Drive and Aspenwood Drive.Some roads are called boulevards, with Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Miami's Biscayne Boulevard among the best known. Avenues usually cross streets, as in New York, but often the word is chosen as part of a name for no particular reason. Avenue and boulevard once indicated roads with trees along each side, but few have trees today. A road in the US is usually found outside cities, though Chicago uses the name for some central streets.Some street names have particular associations: Grant Avenue in San Francisco is associated with Chinatown, Beale Street in Memphis with the blues, and Bourbon Street in New Orleans with jazz. In New York Wall Street is associated with the financial world, Madison Avenue with advertising and Broadway with theatres.Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorrya1, Buildingsa1A couple were arguing out in the street. 一对夫妇在街上争吵。 Crowds thronged the streets. 人群蜂拥上街。 Dead bodies littered the streets. 街上死尸遍地。 Gangs roamed the streets at night. 夜晚，一帮帮混混儿在街上游荡。 He could see her across the street. 他能看见马路对面的她。 He grew up on the mean streets of one of the city's toughest areas. 他在城市中治安最差的一个地区的陋巷中长大。 He suffered extensive injuries in a street attack. 他在一起街头袭击事件中多处受伤。 He wandered through the streets of Calcutta. 他漫步在加尔各答的大街上。 He works at a small store on Main Street. 他在商业大街上的一家小商店里工作。 I was living on 10th Street off Hudson. 我住在哈得孙河附近的第十大街上。 It really irritates me when people ride bicycles in pedestrian streets. 看到有人在步行街骑自行车，我会很恼火。 Most local people support the idea of traffic-free streets. 大多数当地人支持设立步行街的观点。 Most street names were changed under the new regime. 在新政权下多数街名都改了。 Mozart is remembered by a street named after him. 为纪念莫扎特，一条街道以他的名字命名。 Police were told to clear the streets of drug dealers before the Olympics. 警察受命在奥运会前清除街上的毒贩。 She parks her car in the street. 她把车停在了街上。 She stepped out into the street. 她迈步走到街上。 Spectators lined the streets. 观众在街道两旁排列等候。 Take the second street on the right after the bridge. 过了桥之后走右边第二条街。 The police have been patrolling the streets in this area since the murder. 自谋杀案发生以后，警察一直在这个地区的街道上巡逻。 The shops had no street numbers on. 商店没挂门牌号。 The streets are teeming with traffic. 街上车来车往。 The streets were packed with people shopping. 街上挤满了购物的人群。 There were photographers outside the street door so she used a back entrance. 临街的门外有人拍照，所以她走了后门。 There's a chemist's just up the street. 街道这边就有一家药店。 They walked along the street. 他们沿着街道步行。 Thousands of people were out on the streets for the protest. 数千人走上街头表示抗议。 We live in Barker Street. 我们住巴克大街。 You've taken the wrong street. 你走错路了。 a club just off William Street 就在威廉大街边上的俱乐部 a painting of a typical Parisian street scene 描绘典型的巴黎街景的油画 a plan to keep teenagers off the streets 不让青少年流落街头的计划 people dealing drugs on the street 街头毒品贩子 street fighting between police and stone-throwing youths 警察与投掷石块的青年之间的巷战 streets lined with cafes 咖啡馆林立的街道 the dense street pattern of the old town 老镇密集的街道布局 the town's main shopping street 这个城镇的主要商业街 Do you have a street plan of the town? 你有这个城镇的街道图吗？ I met him by chance in the street. 我在街上与他偶遇。 I spotted her on the other side of the street. 我在街道的另一边发现了她。 I walked up the street as far as the post office. 我沿街一直走到了邮局。 The streets are very busy at this time of year. 每年的这个时候街道都很繁忙。 narrow winding streets 弯弯曲曲的狭窄街道 Many people just walk into the gallery off the street. 许多人只是走进街对面的画廊。 She looked out over the busy city streets. 她眺望着繁忙的城市街道。 a one-way street 单行道 a street sign 街道标志 She crossed the street to avoid him. 她穿过街道以避开他。 It was time to take the political struggle onto the streets (= by protesting in large groups in the streets of a city). 该是将政治斗争进行到底的时候了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- broad
- wide
- narrow
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- go along
- go down
- go up
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- go
- lead
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- corner
- map
- plan
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- across a/the street
- along a/the street
- down a/the street
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- above street level
- at street level
- below street level
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- along/down/up the street
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the ideas and opinions of ordinary people, especially people who live in cities, which are considered important （尤指城市里）街头民意 The feeling I get from the street is that we have a good chance of winning this election. 我从街头民意调查感觉到我们很有机会赢得这场选举。 The word on the street is that it's not going to happen. 民众普遍认为此事不会发生。 Opinion on the street was divided. 街上意见不一。
see also Civvy Street, Grub Street
Word OriginOld English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’.
Idioms
the man (and/or woman) in the street
on easy street
- (old-fashioned, informal)
enjoying a comfortable way of life with plenty of money 环境舒适；生活优裕；安定富足
(out) on/onto the streets/street
on/walking the streets
working as a prostitute 做妓女；靠卖淫为生
streets ahead (of somebody/something)
- (British English, informal)
much better or more advanced than somebody/something else （比某人或事物）好得多，先进得多 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 Beth is streets ahead of all the other students in her year. 贝丝遥遥领先于她那一年的所有其他学生。
the streets are paved with gold
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used to say that it seems easy to make money in a place （表示在某地挣钱容易）遍地都是黄金
(right) up your street (especially British English)
(North American English usually (right) up your alley)