- (North American English) (British English lift)
a machine that carries people or goods up and down to different levels in a building or a mine 电梯；升降机 Extra ExamplesTopics Buildingsb1He rode the elevator to the 43rd floor. 他乘电梯到 43 层。 One guy fell down the elevator shaft. 有个家伙掉下了电梯升降井。 The agents in the station sent the checked baggage down stairs on a freight elevator. 车站人员把检查过的行李放到货运电梯里送下楼。 The elevator dinged and the door opened. 叮的一声，电梯门开了。 The elevator doors closed behind her. 电梯门在她身后关上了。 We took a creaky old elevator up to the third floor. 我们乘着一部吱吱作响的老旧电梯到达了三层。 York pressed the button to call the elevator. 约克按下按钮等电梯。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- glass
- express
- high-speed
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- ride
- take
- use
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- go up
- descend
- go down
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- shaft
- door
- button
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- (also grain elevator)(North American English)
a tall building used to store grain and that contains equipment to move it 谷仓；粮仓 In the harbour a giant elevator stores prairie grain. 在港口，一部巨大的电梯储存着草原谷物。
a part in the tail of an aircraft that is moved to make it go up and down （航空器的）升降舵 
Word Originmid 17th cent. (denoting a muscle): modern Latin, from Latin elevare ‘raise’; in later use directly from elevate.