英语词汇dead-end street的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dead-end (street); Dead End Kids. Dead end refers to a cul- de-sac, a street with no exit except the way one came in. The term has also come to mean no hope of progress, advancement, etc. The Dead End Kids were a movie gang of young, often lov- able hoodlums featured in a series of films beginning with Dead End (1937), originally a Broadway play featuring, among others, Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall. They lived and hung out at the end of a dead-end street on the East Side waterfront, where there were luxury apartments as well as tenements.

词汇	dead-end street
词源	dead-end (street); Dead End Kids. Dead end refers to a cul- de-sac, a street with no exit except the way one came in. The term has also come to mean no hope of progress, advancement, etc. The Dead End Kids were a movie gang of young, often lov- able hoodlums featured in a series of films beginning with Dead End (1937), originally a Broadway play featuring, among others, Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall. They lived and hung out at the end of a dead-end street on the East Side waterfront, where there were luxury apartments as well as tenements.
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