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Definition of backstreet in English: backstreetnounˈbakstriːtˈbækstrit 1A minor street away from the main roads. 后街;小道 we took a short cut through the backstreets of Kings Cross 我们从英皇十字区的后街抄了近道。 as modifier a backstreet garage 后街加油站。 Example sentencesExamples - He said people were comparing prices at top hotels in Ireland with backstreet bars in Spain and they wanted to achieve lower prices by slashing the minimum wage and raising taxes.
- I walk the backstreets and gravelly car-parks for at least half an hour and fail to find a single game in progress.
- But also - by wandering through the lesser-known quarters, backstreets and countless minor markets - you will get a sense of the living city too.
- I found it depressing to think of all those kids stuck, bored, in some dismal backstreet pub in London or Leysdown whilst their uninterested parents booze away hundreds of pounds.
- We left the park and walked back via backstreets to the hotel.
- We had to maneuver for hours, trying different fruitless backstreets, before breaking onto open highway.
- Instead of giving me worn phrases I could find in travel brochures, why can't she write about the culture, the people, and backstreet nooks and crannies that elude most tourists?
- It's got brilliant little backstreets and candy lanes of bars in attics and basements around Plaza Nueva.
- However, that made her even more surprised when, only a few exits later, the car turned back off the thruway and into a maze of backstreets and alleys.
- She floated through the maze of alleys and backstreets, craning her neck, her eyes searching.
- Use of the bollard should be limited to enforcing timed restrictions on city centre roads and to very specific cases where small backstreets are made unsafe by rat-running.
- Tree-lined boulevards dotted with pavement cafes and small boutiques characterise this atypical Tokyo quarter, and a maze of alleyways and backstreets happily interrupts the city's otherwise ubiquitous grid pattern.
- We drove through the dusty backstreets of Dangriga until we pulled up outside a sun-bleached wooden house on stilts.
- Just 20 lads are causing mayhem stealing hundreds of cars, tearing round estate roads and then dumping the vehicles on backstreets.
- Police in Lisbon have also been supplied with 100 new marked patrol cars and 70 scooters, ideal for speeding through the city's tight backstreets.
- Still, I enjoyed our jaunt through the backstreets of Brighton with a bottle of wine in each hand, as we made our way on foot from the multi-storey car park a quarter of a mile away.
- Then they burst from the backstreets and the alleyway onto a large empty thoroughfare.
- It sounded as remarkable in person as it did on the day I had it playing on my discman, walking through the backstreets of Berlin looking for the studio in which it was recorded.
- Turn right out of Gare du Nord and it's only a short walk through the backstreets to Montmartre, a bohemian hill with spectacular views across the city.
- We set off through the illuminated streets of nighttime London, round Hyde Park Corner, up Piccadilly and through the backstreets of Mayfair.
- 1.1as modifier Acting or done secretly and typically illegally.
非法秘密堕胎。 Example sentencesExamples - Lust was the thing that caused men to risk their jobs and families for a tawdry backstreet encounter, it's the thing that costs politicians their careers.
- Unemployment at 70% is exacerbating poverty, prostitution, backstreet abortion and honour killing.
- When people in the North repeatedly turn out to vote for sectarian demagoguery and backstreet thuggery above all available normal democratic alternatives, then they have not delivered a verdict which needs to be respected.
- She would scrap it and have us return to the old days of backstreet abortions and unwanted pregnancies for young girls.
- If abortion was illegal, many women would be forced to have abortions from unqualified physicians in backstreet clinics, risking their own health.
- Women in Ireland don't have to resort to backstreet abortions because they can get on a plane and fly to England.
- Risky - and often fatal - backstreet abortions continue to be the only alternative for some.
- Some of the desperate women who opted for backstreet abortions often had to have their uteruses surgically removed because of resulting massive infection.
- You may even need to see that old bogeyman who should be long gone in Shanghai - the backstreet money changer.
- Some twenty backstreet factories also processed large quantities of opium, which was then one of British Columbia's largest industries.
- But having said that, it's also implicit in the film that backstreet abortionists cannot be a good thing.
- And some women died from backstreet abortions.
- A fighting fund of more than £100,000 has been spent to buy back spare tickets and keep them from the backstreet hustlers, whom many blame for pricing ordinary spectators out of leading sports venues.
- People are forced to go to backstreet butchers if they are not being provided with the services they need.
- Not that the landed gentry would be caught dead with a Bristol glass full of backstreet gin on their persons.
- This has led to an increase in backstreet circumcisions.
- They were extraordinary, skating without helmets or knee pads, invading empty swimming pools like backstreet bandits, brave and single-minded and uniquely talented.
- However the use of illegal backstreet operations to remove the tumours is being slammed by the local authorities.
- The basic game will see you set up your own backstreet clinic, and people will come to you with their ailments, hoping that you will perform a set of miracles.
Definition of backstreet in US English: backstreetnounˈbakstrētˈbækstrit A minor street remote from a main road. 后街;小道 as modifier a backstreet garage 后街加油站。 the fetid backstreets of the shanty town Example sentencesExamples - Just 20 lads are causing mayhem stealing hundreds of cars, tearing round estate roads and then dumping the vehicles on backstreets.
- It's got brilliant little backstreets and candy lanes of bars in attics and basements around Plaza Nueva.
- Police in Lisbon have also been supplied with 100 new marked patrol cars and 70 scooters, ideal for speeding through the city's tight backstreets.
- He said people were comparing prices at top hotels in Ireland with backstreet bars in Spain and they wanted to achieve lower prices by slashing the minimum wage and raising taxes.
- She floated through the maze of alleys and backstreets, craning her neck, her eyes searching.
- We left the park and walked back via backstreets to the hotel.
- We had to maneuver for hours, trying different fruitless backstreets, before breaking onto open highway.
- It sounded as remarkable in person as it did on the day I had it playing on my discman, walking through the backstreets of Berlin looking for the studio in which it was recorded.
- I found it depressing to think of all those kids stuck, bored, in some dismal backstreet pub in London or Leysdown whilst their uninterested parents booze away hundreds of pounds.
- Turn right out of Gare du Nord and it's only a short walk through the backstreets to Montmartre, a bohemian hill with spectacular views across the city.
- Still, I enjoyed our jaunt through the backstreets of Brighton with a bottle of wine in each hand, as we made our way on foot from the multi-storey car park a quarter of a mile away.
- We drove through the dusty backstreets of Dangriga until we pulled up outside a sun-bleached wooden house on stilts.
- Tree-lined boulevards dotted with pavement cafes and small boutiques characterise this atypical Tokyo quarter, and a maze of alleyways and backstreets happily interrupts the city's otherwise ubiquitous grid pattern.
- I walk the backstreets and gravelly car-parks for at least half an hour and fail to find a single game in progress.
- We set off through the illuminated streets of nighttime London, round Hyde Park Corner, up Piccadilly and through the backstreets of Mayfair.
- Use of the bollard should be limited to enforcing timed restrictions on city centre roads and to very specific cases where small backstreets are made unsafe by rat-running.
- Then they burst from the backstreets and the alleyway onto a large empty thoroughfare.
- However, that made her even more surprised when, only a few exits later, the car turned back off the thruway and into a maze of backstreets and alleys.
- Instead of giving me worn phrases I could find in travel brochures, why can't she write about the culture, the people, and backstreet nooks and crannies that elude most tourists?
- But also - by wandering through the lesser-known quarters, backstreets and countless minor markets - you will get a sense of the living city too.
adjectiveˈbakstrētˈbækstrit attributive Operating or performed secretly, and typically illegally. a loophole that allowed backstreet chemists to make methamphetamine |