| 释义 |
down-street, adv. (a.) colloq. and dial.
[down prep. 3.]
Down the street; in, into, or toward the lower part of a town, etc.; (see also quot. 1962). Also attrib. or as adj., and as n.
1828M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 199 He began..to look out for a wife, up street and down... The down⁓street lady was a widow. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom xxviii, I believe I'll go down street, a few moments, and hear the news. 1865W. S. Banks Provincial Words Wakefield 76 Up Street, means the upper part of the town... ‘Dahn street’ is used in a similar manner. 1876W. Wright Hist. Big Bonanza (1877) 365, I was told down street..that there was a regular row in one of the shebangs up this way. 1888B. Lowsley Gloss. Berkshire Words 73 Down-strit, the opposite direction in the main road through a village from up-strit. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 158 One goes down city only if he is going to the business center; if he is going no farther than the nearest grocery store or shopping center, his destination is downstreet. |