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stairs
[plural] a set of steps built between two floors inside a building楼梯- We had to carry the piano up three flights of stairs.我们不得不抬着钢琴上了三段楼梯。
- He climbed the stairs to his bedroom他爬上楼梯来到他的卧室
- up/down the stairs The children ran up the stairs.孩子们跑上楼梯。
- on the stairs He remembered passing her on the stairs.他记得在楼梯上与她擦肩而过。
- at the bottom/top of the stairs在楼梯下端/顶端
see also downstairs, upstairsExtra Examples- My kids sat on the basement stairs.我的孩子们坐在地下室楼梯上。
- Take the back stairs.走后面的楼梯。
- The stairs creaked as I went down.我下楼时楼梯吱吱作响。
- We went up three flights of stairs.我们爬了三段楼梯。
- a closet under the stairs楼梯下的壁橱
- the stairs to the third floor通往三楼的楼梯
- He was standing at the foot of the stairs looking up.他站在楼梯脚下向上看。
Topics Houses and homesa2, Buildingsa2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective… of stairsverb + stairsstairs + verb- go down to something
- go up to something
- lead to something
- …
stair + nounpreposition- under the stairs
- stairs down to
- stairs to
- …
phrases- the bottom of the stairs
- the foot of the stairs
- the head of the stairs
- …
See full entry - [countable] one of the steps in a set of stairs梯级
- How many stairs are there up to the second floor?上到第三层一共有多少磴楼梯?
Extra Examples- He sat waiting on the bottom stair.他坐在最下面的一级楼梯上等着。
- The third stair creaked as I stepped on it.我踩上去时,第三级楼梯板吱吱作响。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryadjectiveprepositionSee full entry - (literary)
(also staircase)
[singular] a set of stairs inside a building including the banisters (= posts and bars that are fixed at the side)楼梯- The house had a panelled hall and a fine oak stair.房子的门厅装有镶板墙裙,楼梯是用高级栎木建造的。
Word OriginOld English stǣger, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch steiger ‘scaffolding’, from a base meaning ‘climb’.
Idioms - (British English, old-fashioned) in the part of a house where the servants lived in the past(旧时)在仆人住的地方