大街小巷 | dà jiē xiǎo xiàng | great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city | |
街巷 | jiē xiàng | streets and alleys; street; alley | |
巷子 | xiàng zi | alley | |
街头巷尾 | jiē tóu xiàng wěi | top of streets, bottom of alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city | |
街谈巷议 | jiē tán xiàng yì | (idiom) town gossip; streetcorner conversations |
1 | This alley is where I lived when I was young. | |
2 | Fuguo then made a phone call and soon we were being ushered past a goat into a back alley decorated with colourful paper flowers. | |
3 | Guests would have been led down 'Diagon Alley' by the side of the house and been met by a portrait of the "Fat Lady" who would have demanded a password before they could be let in. | |
4 | So long as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the last stall vanished. | |
5 | They headed down one of the side alleys between more rows of buildings that all seemed built for patrons long dead. |