back alley

基本解释

Fuguo then made a phone call and soon we were being ushered past a goat into a back alley decorated with colourful paper flowers.
富国接着打了个电话，很快我们被领着经过一只山羊，进入一条装饰着鲜艳纸花的后巷。
"I don't think you'd have to live here very long," says Canmore Mayor Ron Casey, "to see a coyote walking down a back alley with a big fat rabbit in its mouth.
“我不认为你会继续在这里生活很久，”坎莫尔的市长罗恩·凯西说，“看着一条嘴里叼着肥大兔子的狼在小巷中行走。”
“Hedge funds used to be set up by two guys in a back alley with a flashlight, ” says one veteran.
一名老手这么说：“过去，两个家伙在穷街陋巷里，拿个手电筒，就可以设立对冲基金。”

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a narrow passage behind or between buildings, especially in the older and poorer areas of a town or city