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单词 back alley
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back alley
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbæk ˌæl.i/us
/ˈbæk ˌæl.i/
anarrowpassagebehind or betweenbuildings,especiallyin theolderandpoorerareasof atownorcity:
陋巷（建筑物后或之间的狭窄通道，尤指市镇相对破旧、贫穷地区的）
They werebornintopovertyandlearnedtheirtradein the backalleysof Naples, New York, or Chicago.他们出身贫穷，在那不勒斯、纽约及芝加哥的陋巷中学到了自己的手艺。
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(Definition ofback alleyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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In the narrowbackalleybehind the house are piled quantities of garbage.
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If those constables did that up abackalley, people might say that it was worse.
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We are notbackalley, harum-scarum politicians.
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Particular issues have arisen with personal security and public order problems in some housing schemes usingbackalleyor back garden type links.
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They then pull into abackalley, get out of the car, and commence to play the song on the street.
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She had escaped as a puppy, and had been kept in abackalleyby a shopkeeper until she was six months old.
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The campus itself expanded in the 1970s with a massive highrise inserted in thebackalleyof old surgery clinic.
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Hatami advised him to try thebackalley, by which he meant the path to the guest house, beyond the main house.
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At the time, the back of my building was not enclosed so anyone could have driven in thebackalleyto observe my balcony.
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Confused and frightened, the couple run into abackalleyand enter a void of white space.
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Exhausted, he stumbled into abackalleysomewhere.
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They find themselves in abackalleywith police just around both ends.
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His body was dumped in abackalleyover a mile away.
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He exhausts his funds and is reduced to homelessness and is forced to performbackalleymedical procedures for cash.
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All the nearby buildings seem to be facing away, making the plaza's 11 acre of concrete and brick feel like the world's largestbackalley.
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