英语释义

1. having a mean, furtive, or squalid character or air
back-alley gossip

2. done secretly and illegally by someone using crude and dangerous methods
… postabortion distress (often caused by back-alley operations).
— Marguerite Holloway, Scientific American, April 2001

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the back alley tour深巷测试法

small back-alley factory里弄小厂

Back alley in Miami后巷在迈阿密图片

back-alley y butcher卑鄙的屠夫

Back Alley Brawl世界摔角大赛

West back alley西后巷

back-alley butcher卑鄙的屠夫

Back-Alley Banking后街金融

英汉例句

• with the subprime mess working its way into every back alley of the stock, bond, and money markets, this is a tricky time to be searching for income.

  现如今，想要获得收入是要有技巧的。次级债的问题广泛影响了股票、债券和货币市场，稍不注意，就有可能陷入泥潭。

• i remembered that day very clearly. my brother and i were walking down the back alley of some buildings.

  我记得很清楚，那一天和我哥哥走在几栋房子的后巷。

• it「s dangerous to walk the back alley alone in the night.

  夜晚独自走在僻静的小巷里是很危险的。

• muniannal worked in a back alley in madras, sorting through used syringes with lightning speed to separate the needles from the plastic.

  在印度马德拉斯市的一条偏僻小巷做工，她每天的工作就是整理用过的注射器，她需要以闪电般的速度将针头与塑料针管分开。

• for more safety don」t run away to a back alley or a dark secluded spot, run towards a brightly lit area where there are lots of people.

  为更安全，不跑开了后巷或黑暗寻幽，沖向一个灯火通明的地方，有很多的人。

• 「i don「t think you」d have to live here very long,」 says canmore mayor ron casey, "to see a coyote walking down a back alley with a big fat rabbit in its mouth.

  「我不认为你会继续在这里生活很久，」坎莫尔的市长罗恩·凯西说，「看着一条嘴里叼着肥大兔子的狼在小巷中行走。」

• 「hedge funds used to be set up by two guys in a back alley with a flashlight,」 says one veteran.

  一名老手这么说：「过去，两个家伙在穷街陋巷里，拿个手电筒，就可以设立对沖基金。」