al·ley
noun/ˈæli/
/ˈæli/
Idioms 
enlarge image(also alleywaya narrow passage behind or between buildings/ˈæliweɪ//ˈæliweɪ/)后巷；夹道 - a narrow/dark alley
狭窄的／黑暗的小巷 - The car was hidden down a narrow alley in the downtown area.
车子藏在市中心一条狭窄的小巷里。 - He ran down one of the dark alleys at the back of the shops.
他跑进商店后面的一条黑暗小巷。
Extra Examples- The alley leads to the restaurant kitchen.
这条小巷通向餐厅的厨房。 - They had cornered him in an alley.
他们把他堵在一条小巷里。 - a bar down a little alley
小巷那头的酒吧 - a maze of narrow alleys
纵横交错的窄巷 - An alley ran along the side of the house.
沿着房子的一侧有条小巷。 - He wandered back through the cobbled alleys.
他穿过鹅卵石小巷漫步回去。 - It is a medieval city of courtyards and twisting alleys.
这是一座带有庭院和曲折小巷的中世纪城市。 - The book describes the conditions of the urban poor in the sordid alleys of Victorian cities.
这本书描述了维多利亚时代城市肮脏小巷中城市贫民的状况。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- darkened
- deserted
- …
- lead onto something
- lead to something
- cat
- along an/the alley
- down an/the alley
- up an/the alley
- …
- a narrow/dark alley
- (North American English) the area between the pair of straight lines on a tennis or badminton court that mark the extra area that is used when four people are playing
（网球或羽毛球球场两侧的）双打边线 see also back-alley
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French alee ‘walking or passage’, from aler ‘go’, from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’.
Idioms
(right) up your alley
- (North American English) (especially British English (right) up your street)(informal) very suitable for you because it is something that you know a lot about or are very interested in
（正）适合你；（正）和你对口 - A teaching job would be right up her alley.
教学工作正合她的胃口。
- A teaching job would be right up her alley.