alley

英 ['ælɪ] 美['æli]

复数: alleys;

1. 词义影响：alley => aisle.
2. 由于在古法语里面它们词形相近而使其词义受其影响。
3. Alley：暗里。黑暗笼罩下的小路----小巷，小径。

alley 小巷

单词amble的异体。

alley: alley: [14] Alley is related to French aller ‘go’. Old French aler (which came from Latin ambulāre ‘walk’, source of English amble and ambulance) produced the derived noun alee ‘act of walking’, hence ‘place where one walks, passage’.
=> amble, ambulance
alley (n.): mid-14c., "passage in a house; open passage between buildings; walkway in a garden," from Old French alee (13c., Modern French allée) "a path, passage, way, corridor," also "a going," from fem. of ale, past participle of aler "to go," which ultimately may be a contraction of Latin ambulare "to walk," or from Gallo-Roman allari, a back-formation from Latin allatus "having been brought to" [Barnhart]. Compare sense evolution of gate. Applied by c. 1500 to "long narrow enclosure for playing at bowls, skittles, etc." Used in place names from c. 1500.

The word is applied in American English to what in London is called a mews, and also is used there especially of a back-lane parallel to a main street (1729). To be up someone's alley "in someone's neighborhood" (literally or figuratively) is from 1931; alley-cat attested by 1890.

1. Everyone wanted to bowl, hence everyone wanted to open a bowling alley.: 大家都想玩保龄球，因此大家都想开保龄球馆。

2. The Internet has proved a blind alley for many firms.: 事实证明，因特网对许多公司而言是一条行不通的路。

4. In any event, the bowling alley restaurant proved quite acceptable.: 无论如何，那个保龄球场的餐厅证明还是很不错的。

5. The centre of the city is full of tiny intersecting alley-ways.: 市中心到处是纵横交错的小巷道。