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巷子

xiàngzi

alley

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alley

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 巷子 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 巷子 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我在黑暗的巷子中绊倒，膝盖砸在柏油路上。一块木板盖著巷弄的房屋之间的电线。深夜的巷弄非常之暗。我的眼镜从眼睛上掉了下来。幸好有一位带著手电筒的广东工人帮忙。我的膝盖只是擦破了皮。我想起另一次膝盖摔伤是在菲律宾奎松市的唐荷西高地。那里有一大片火星般的红土地，遍地长满了「塔拉希布」草。有时工人会故意纵火烧草。我和哥哥当时还在外面玩。那时我们还未到青春期。在燃烧的野草旁，我摔倒了，膝盖著地。我的贝贝姥姥愤怒不已。家里的女佣在车库后面的大磁砖水槽里帮我清洗了双腿。wǒ zài hēi àn de xiàng zi zhōng bàn dǎo， xī gài zá zài bǎi yóu lù shàng。 yī kuài mù bǎn gài zhù xiàng nòng de fáng wū zhī jiān de diàn xiàn。 shēn yè de xiàng nòng fēi cháng zhī àn。 wǒ de yǎn jìng cóng yǎn jīng shàng diào le xià lái。 xìng hǎo yǒu yī wèi dài zhù shǒu diàn tǒng de guǎng dōng gōng rén bāng máng。 wǒ de xī gài zhǐ shì cā pò le pí。 wǒ xiǎng qǐ lìng yī cì xī gài shuāi shāng shì zài fēi lǜ bīn kuí sōng shì de táng hé xī gāo dì。 nà lǐ yǒu yī dà piàn huǒ xīng bān de hóng tǔ dì， biàn dì zhǎng mǎn le 「tǎ lā xī bù」 cǎo。 yǒu shí gōng rén huì gù yì zòng huǒ shāo cǎo。 wǒ hé gē gē dāng shí hái zài wài miàn wán。 nà shí wǒ men hái wèi dào qīng chūn qī。 zài rán shāo de yě cǎo páng， wǒ shuāi dǎo le， xī gài zhù dì。 wǒ de bèi bèi lǎo lao fèn nù bù yǐ。 jiā lǐ de nǚ yōng zài chē kù hòu miàn de dà cí zhuān shuǐ cáo lǐ bāng wǒ qīng xǐ le shuāng tuǐ。

I tripped in the alleyway in the darkness, as I crashed my knees on the asphalt. There was a wooden board that covered a wire between houses across the alleyway. It was very dark there at night. My eyeglasses fell off my face. Luckily, a Cantonese labourer with a flashlight helped me. My knees just got scraped. I remember another time when I crashed on my knees. It was at Don José Heights in Quezon City in the Philippines. There was a vastness of Martianesque red soil, wherein the "talahib" grass grew. Sometimes, workers intentionally set the grass on fire. My brother and I were still playing, even then, outside. We were still prepubescent. Near burning grass, I stumbled on my knees. My grandmother, Lola Bebe, was so angry. A maid washed my legs in the big tiled sink behind the garage.

这条巷子安静得吓人。zhè tiáo xiàng zi ān jìng dé xià rén。

No published English translation for this sentence.

一个人撑着印着保险公司商标的雨伞，经过了这条巷子。yí gè rén chēng zhe yìn zhe bǎo xiǎn gōng sī shāng biāo dì yǔ sǎn， jīng guò le zhè tiáo xiàng zi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 巷子.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 巷子.

Directly before

  • 这条巷子2
  • 条巷子1
  • 的巷子1

Directly after

  • 巷子安静1
  • 巷子中1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 巷子

What does 巷子 mean in Chinese?

巷子 (xiàngzi) means alley.

How do you pronounce 巷子?

巷子 is pronounced xiàngzi.

Is 巷子 an HSK word?

巷子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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