| 单词 | mean street |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmean street mean street n. colloquial (chiefly in plural) a street in the poorer part of any town; (also) a street in any urban district in which violence, crime, etc., are (perceived to be) rife. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings > types of Park Lane1847 mean street1861 Millionaires' Row1894 stockbroker belt1960 Coronation Street1962 1861 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 Oct. 212/2 Deal is not very seductive to the sojourner, with its labyrinths of mean streets. 1894 A. Morrison (title) Tales of mean streets. 1931 V. Woolf Waves 177 Here are mean streets where chaffering goes on. 1944 R. Chandler in Atlantic Monthly Dec. 59/2 But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. 1991 N.Y. Times 22 Oct. d9/1 Some late-shift workers were quitting because the soaring crime rate has made people afraid of going into Moscow's mean streets at night. < as lemmas |
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