alley

英 ['?l?] 美['?li]

CET6+TEM4低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?alleys;

1. 詞義影響：alley => aisle.
2. 由于在古法語里面它們詞形相近而使其詞義受其影響。
3. Alley：暗里。黑暗籠罩下的小路----小巷，小徑。

alley 小巷

單詞amble的異體。

alley: alley: [14] Alley is related to French aller ‘go’. Old French aler (which came from Latin ambulāre ‘walk’, source of English amble and ambulance) produced the derived noun alee ‘act of walking’, hence ‘place where one walks, passage’.
=> amble, ambulance
alley (n.): 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 ultimately may be a contraction of Latin ambulare "to walk," or from Gallo-Roman allari, a back-formation from Latin allatus "having been brought to" [Barnhart]. Compare sense evolution of gate. Applied by c. 1500 to "long narrow enclosure for playing at bowls, skittles, etc." Used in place names from c. 1500.

The word is applied in American English to what in London is called a mews, and also is used there especially of a back-lane parallel to a main street (1729). To be up someone's alley "in someone's neighborhood" (literally or figuratively) is from 1931; alley-cat attested by 1890.

1. Everyone wanted to bowl, hence everyone wanted to open a bowling alley.: 大家都想玩保齡球，因此大家都想開保齡球館。

2. The Internet has proved a blind alley for many firms.: 事實證明，因特網對許多公司而言是一條行不通的路。

4. In any event, the bowling alley restaurant proved quite acceptable.: 無論如何，那個保齡球場的餐廳證明還是很不錯的。

5. The centre of the city is full of tiny intersecting alley-ways.: 市中心到處是縱橫交錯的小巷道。