moving stairs that carry people between different floors of a large building 自动扶梯;电扶梯;滚梯 Take the escalator down to the lower level. 乘电动扶梯下楼。 We rode the escalator up toward our restaurant. 我们乘电动扶梯上到餐厅。 kids running up a down escalator 在下行电动扶梯上向上跑的小孩 The up escalator was out of service. 上行自动扶梯停止运行了。 - by escalator
Passengers are carried by escalator to the first floor. 乘客乘电动扶梯到 2 楼。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- down
- up
- ride
- take
- use
- …
- carry somebody
- lead to something
Word Originearly 20th cent. (originally US, as a trade name): from escalade ‘climb a wall by ladder’ (from the noun escalade), on the pattern of elevator.