喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈeskəleɪtər/ · /ˈeskəleɪtə/電扶梯

    A moving staircase that carries people up or down between floors of a building.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei took the escalator up to the toy floor in the mall.

    逐字美搭乘電扶梯上到商場的玩具樓層。

    「escalator」是英文裡「會自己動的樓梯」——站上去，它把你帶到另一層。台灣日常多半說「電扶梯」或「手扶梯」，商場、捷運站、百貨公司很常見。核心畫面可以想成「斜著往上或往下移動的階梯」：你站著，階梯帶你走。跟 elevator / lift 分開：elevator 是關起來垂直升降的電梯盒子；escalator 是開放式、斜坡上的移動階梯。常見：take the escalator、ride the escalator、the up / down escalator、hold the handrail。

    常見搭配

    • take the escalator

      搭／乘電扶梯

      to use an escalator to go to another floor

      Take the escalator to the second floor.

    • ride the escalator

      搭乘電扶梯

      to stand or move on an escalator as it carries you

      The kids rode the escalator all the way up.

    • up / down escalator

      往上／往下的電扶梯

      an escalator that goes up or down

      The up escalator is next to the bookshop.

    • stand on the escalator

      站在電扶梯上

      to stay still on an escalator while it moves

      Please stand on the right side of the escalator.

    • get on / get off the escalator

      上／下電扶梯

      to step onto or leave an escalator

      Hold Mum's hand when you get on the escalator.

    • the escalator is out of order

      電扶梯故障／停用

      the escalator is broken and not working

      Sorry — the escalator is out of order today.

    意思相近

    moving stairsmoving staircase

    用法接近

    elevatorliftstairsstaircasestepstravelator

core核心畫面

Picture the metal staircase in a department store that is already moving before you get on it. You step on one step, stand still, and the carry you up to the next floor. The whole idea sits in that one image: that do the climbing for you.

可以想成：百貨公司裡那道你還沒踏上去就已經在動的金屬樓梯。你踩上一階、站著不動，樓梯就把你送到樓上。這個字的意思幾乎就等於這個畫面——會自己走的樓梯。跟 elevator（電梯，一個上下移動的箱子）差在它是一階一階連續的斜坡，人可以邊搭邊走。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 escalators

意思相近

moving stairsmoving staircase

用法接近

elevatorliftstairsstaircasestepstravelator

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

escalatornoun/ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/

  • 1

    Anything that escalates.

    • Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation.
  • 2

    A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

    • There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
    • It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations.
  • 3

    An upward or progressive course.

    • Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream
  • 4

    An escalator clause.

    • They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

escalatorverb/ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/

  • 1

    informalTo move by escalator.

    • We escalatored to the second floor.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。