汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 里弄
里弄
lanes and alleys / neighborhood / lane neighborhoods in parts of Shanghai, with modified Chinese courtyard houses, occupied by single families in the 1930s, now crowded with multiple families
〈方〉〈名〉巷;小胡同(总称)。
() lǐ nòng/lòng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他走门路,给我们在客满的旅馆里弄到了一间空房。

He pulled wires and got us a room at the crowded hotel.

我不得不砍了一棵树,然后找了7位邻居帮忙把它从院子里弄出去。

I had to cut down a tree and enlist the help of seven neighbours to get it out of the garden!

孩子被这只刺猥吓坏了,父亲把它从花园里弄了出去。

The child was frightened by the hedgehog. The father rolled it out of the garden.

人们早起拉伸筋骨、晾晒衣服、倾倒夜壶,日常生活的气息充斥着整个老区的街巷,或者称里弄

The tide of daily life flows through an alley of row houses in an old neighborhood, or lilong, where early rising residents stretch, hang laundry, and empty chamber pots.

若吃寻常药,是不中用的。他就说了一个海上方,又给了一包药末子作引子,异香异气的。不知是那里弄了来的。

No ordinary pills bring any relief, but he gave us an exotic prescription from across the seas, together with a packet of aromatic powder he'd procured as adjuvant goodness knows where.