| 词汇 | upstairs |
| 释义 | upstairs adverb, adjective[ before noun ] uk /ʌpˈsteəz/ us /ʌpˈsterz/ A2 towards or on the highest floor or floors of a building: 往楼上（地）;在楼上（地） an upstairs landing/window楼上的平台／窗户 He heard glass breaking and ran upstairs to see what had caused it.听到玻璃破碎的声音，她跑上楼去看是怎么回事。 Opposite downstairs He's upstairs doing his homework. I wish those people upstairs would stop stamping around. The upstairs lounge is darker and more casual. She took the child by the hand and led him upstairs to bed.她拉着孩子的手领他上楼睡觉。 I'll pop upstairs and get it for you. Parts of buildings: floors & parts of floors basement catwalk ceiling dais decking ground level landing loft low slung machicolation mezzanine multi-levelled runway soapbox split-level storey storeyed the ground floor the second floor woodblock Idiomnot have much upstairs upstairs noun[ S ] uk /ʌpˈsteəz/ us /ʌpˈsterz/ the highest floor or floors of a building: Sadly, the upstairs of the house was gutted by fire. There were shouts from upstairs. We had a builder quote for completion of the upstairs. Her young son had been watching the party from upstairs. The upstairs is closed to the public. Parts of buildings: floors & parts of floors basement catwalk ceiling dais decking ground level landing loft low slung machicolation mezzanine multi-levelled runway soapbox split-level storey storeyed the ground floor the second floor woodblock upstairs | American Dictionaryupstairs adjective, adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈʌpˈsterz/ toward or on the higher floor or floors of a building Examples of upstairsupstairs Occasionally we are allowed to pass notes upstairs, more frequently we just respond to demands for more speed. To make answering the telephone easier, many had installed a telephone extension upstairs. Going upstairs is laborious; the stairs here we never noticed. A few children pointed directly overhead when asked where were rooms upstairs. Instead, they command me to follow them upstairs. I decided to stay upstairs for a while. The client wanted a bedroom upstairs; the planners wanted single storey - it's a very sensitive site - and a pitched roof. Interestingly, although the phrases up there and down there seem as easy and familiar, upstairs and downstairs were six times more frequent. Upstairs and downstairs are common labels for a subordinate spatial category, levels contained within the house, and also specify a route to those levels. At the least, upstairs and downstairs indicates the early entrainment of a directional spatial term with a route. Has a bathroom downstairs, but his bedroom and toilet are upstairs. The husbands worked upstairs in the shop the family owned. Upstairs where the machines are it is terribly hot. Also, it successfully performs climbing upstairs and shadowboxing. There is often a wooden platform between the stilts where food is prepared and where hammocks are slung, although people sleep mostly upstairs on mats. See all examples of upstairs 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. |
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