"街道上没有很多人。"
Translation:There are not many people on the street.
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The Chinese sentence sounds a little awkward to me (native speaker). A more natural way to put it is 街上人不是很多 (or simply 街上人不多).
This is a small thing, but "on the street" sounds strange to me (though not necessarily wrong). I would almost always use "in the street" for people or things literally in the roadway (which I assume the Chinese means). I would "on the street" to refer in a slightly figurative way to homeless people, back alley drug dealers, etc.
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I think this comes down to colloquial preference; where I'm from, "on the street" sounds perfectly natural and "in the street" sounds a bit strange, haha....
I agree completely. But I'd be on the pavement! And if I was in the road, I'd either be waiting to be hit by a car, or - colloquially in Yorkshire, UK - in the way. So no logic - it's language.
I wrote "there are not that many people on the street" and still got it wrong....
The sentence sounds to me like 'in the streets' should be accepted as well.
As a native speaker, the original sentence sounds more like "There is only a few people on the street." to me... If you want to say "there are not (so) many people on the street" we would say “街上人不怎么多/街上人不是特别多”
how would we translate: "The street does not have many people" in Chinese? Please help me here?
21 June 2021: It was marked wrong while saying that it was right (LOL): "Nicely done. Meaning: There are not many people on the street."
'the streets do not have a lot of people' - isn't this also an acceptable translation?
