“万人空巷”是个高频误用成语,曾在1997年的高考语文试卷上被作为考测点出现过。它的整体语义固然是“形容哄动一时的盛况”,然而对其中的“空巷”,几乎所有工具书都解释错了。请看(所引释文一律省去前面的“[万人空巷]”): ①“家家户户的人都从巷里出来了, 多用来形容庆祝、欢迎等盛况。”(新版《现代汉语词典》)②“空巷:指街、巷的居民都走出来了。形 “Alley” is a high frequency misuse of idioms, in 1997, the college entrance examination of Chinese papers have been used as test sites. Its overall semantic meaning is “described as a boisterous grand occasion”, but for the “empty lane”, almost all the tools are explained wrong. Please see (the cited interpretation of the text omission in front of the “[million emptying”]): ① “Every family people come out from the alley, and more used to describe the celebration, welcome and other grand occasion.” (The new version of “Modern Chinese Dictionary”) ② " Empty Lane: refers to the streets, alley residents have come out