| 词汇 | stair |
| 释义 | stair noun uk /steər/ us /ster/ stairs[ plural ] A2 a set of steps that lead from one level of a building to another: 楼梯 Go up the stairs and her office is on the right.上楼后，她的办公室在右手边。 [ C ] one of the steps in a set of steps that lead from one level of a building to another: （楼梯的）梯级 The top stair creaked as she went upstairs and the noise woke up her mother.她上楼时最上面一级楼梯咯吱一响，吵醒了她母亲。 [ S ]old use or literary a set of stairs: 楼梯 He climbed the wooden stair and knocked on his grandfather's door.他爬上木楼梯，敲了敲祖父的房门。 pigphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Parts of buildings: stairs & lifts chairlift chute drag lift dumb waiter elevator escalator fire escape flight ladder lift rope ladder rung staircase stairlift stairway step-free stepladder stoep stoop tread Idiombelow/above stairs stair | American Dictionarystair noun[ C ] us/steər/ a step in a set of stairs: The top stair creaked loudly as she stepped on it. Examples of stairstair Size, the presence of steep stairs, dampness, and difficulty to heat, may mean that property is inappropriate. She could walk more normally, manage stairs and go out alone safely. Note the steep stairs leading from garden to upper floor living area. The stairs, lavatory and kitchen were concentrated in the core of the plan. Other roving stairs include external stairs front and back, almost impossible to locate on plan due to discrepancies between set design and location. Either way, spiral stairs lead to a common landing, called the parlour in plans. We can imagine that the stairs were useful in the process of building. I don't like stairs, from not having stairs for ten years. Improved design or location of equipment not directly involved with stairs could also make a contribution. A variety of methods were said to be used by participants to help them manage stairs in the dark. Reports from our focus groups support this: various instances of unsafe behaviour on stairs were identified. Recruitment materials indicated that the study was investigating the knowledge of people aged 65 and over concerning safety on stairs. Other measures to assist with tasks involving stairs are also likely to be useful. What do older people know about safety on stairs ? One entrance is accessible using stairs and another from a ramped path. See all examples of stair These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withstairstairThese are words often used in combination with stair. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. back stair When institutions are at their most powerful, they often work in difficult conditions—usually up a backstair somewhere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 concrete stair The building is of steel frame construction, with reinforced concretestair wells, and grey zinc exterior cladding. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. entrance stairs There is no entrance stairs, or probably was made from organic wooden material that already decayed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with stair |
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