| 释义 |
walk the streets1Walk freely in a town or city: it was not safe to walk the streets at night...- Large numbers of snake charmers once could be seen walking the streets of cities and towns, their cloth-covered baskets hanging from bamboo poles slung across the shoulders.
- With the passing of our Town Hall those days are now but distant memories and far removed from an era when it is no longer safe to walk the streets of our town in early morning.
- Some of the men and women walking the streets of our towns, cities and villages are actually not well.
2Work as a prostitute: she walked the streets for a few weeks when she was desperate...- He made friends with the prostitutes who walked the streets and even the Narcs, who sold their vials of death on every street corner.
- Alongside the strip clubs, peep shows, and massage parlors, a large number of prostitutes walked the streets.
- Beggars, gamblers, drunkards, and prostitutes walked the streets, looking for money which, one way or the other, they would get.
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