核心畫面

Picture a road running through a town with buildings — houses, shops, offices — lined up along one or both sides. That paved public way with buildings flanking it is the seed of the word; from it the meaning stretches outward to the open public life that happens on it, to the ordinary people found there, and to a handful of fixed phrases.

可以想成一條穿過城鎮的路,兩旁(或一旁)排著房子、商店、辦公室。這條兩側有建築的公共道路就是這個字的種子;由它往外延更多收起可以想成一條穿過城鎮的路,兩旁(或一旁)排著房子、商店、辦公室。這條兩側有建築的公共道路就是這個字的種子;由它往外延伸,指在路上發生的公開生活、路上遇到的一般人,以及幾個固定片語。

原始詞典資料29 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Streetname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A place in England:

  • 3

    A place in England:

  • 4

    A place in England:

  • 5

    A place in England:

  • 6

    A place in England:

  • 7

    A place in England:

  • 8

    A place in England:

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.

  • 10

    An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.

streetnoun/stɹiːt/

  • 1

    A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

    • Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
    • The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
  • 2

    A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

    • I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
    • I've been shopping in Oxford Street.
  • 3

    The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.

  • 4

    Metonymic senses:

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    Metonymic senses:

    • Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
  • 6

    Metonymic senses:

    • I got some pot cheap on the street.
    • The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
  • 7

    Living in the streets.

    • a street cat
    • a street urchin
  • 8

    slangStreetwise slang.

    • Toaster is street for guns.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangPeople in general, as a source of information.

    • Streets say something's happening tomorrow.
  • 10

    A great distance.

    • He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
    • England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street.
  • 11

    slangcard-gamespokerEach of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

  • 12

    hobbieslifestylesportsA style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.

streetadj/stɹiːt/

  • 1

    slangHaving street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

    • Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.

streetverb/stɹiːt/

  • 1

    To build or equip with streets.

    • There are few places on this ſide the Alps better built, and ſo well Streeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and pleaſant Walks.
    • After all, Thomas, in whose thinking Aristotle and Christ combine as never before or since, was censured by the Church, fortunately in absentia, after he had been " absented" from this little threshing floor, streeted with straw, our earth, and was, presumably, dwelling in beatific felicity, in any case, safe from Bishop Tempier.
  • 2

    To eject; to throw onto the streets.

    • Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.
  • 3

    hobbieslifestylesportsTo heavily defeat.

    • Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.
    • But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition.
  • 4

    To go on sale.

    • He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD
    • “Family & Friends 5” was recorded last May in Detroit at Greater Grace Temple. The event was also taped for a DVD that streeted the same day as the CD.
  • 5

    To proselytize in public.

    • A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot.
    • Although streeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。