stair

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stair /steə $ ster/ S2 W3 noun → stare

1 stairs [plural]DHHTBB a set of steps built for going from one level of a building to another 樓梯 → upstairs, downstairs

up/down the stairs

Jerry ran up the stairs.

傑裏跑上樓去。

the top/head of the stairs

I left my briefcase at the top of the stairs.

我把公文包遺忘在樓梯頂端了。

the bottom/foot of the stairs

‘Lisa, ’ he cried from the foot of the stairs.

“莉薩。”他在樓梯腳喊道。

We walked up four flights of stairs (=sets of stairs).

我們往上走了四段樓梯。

Examples from the Corpus

up/down the stairs• The way moves cast, and then doubles back, labyrinth-like, to head north and up the stairs.• In the gaslit passage, Joe saw the new lady lodger coming down the stairs, her hat and coat on.• At five o'clock she returned to the theatre and crept up the stairs to the dressing-room.• I watched the procession disappear down the stairs.• Lucy was appalled by the thought of her aunt falling down the stairs and now lying in pain.• Without hesitation, the sergeant swung round and hurried down the stairs as lightly as his own considerable bulk would allow.• When we enter Hussy Sound I follow my fellow passengers down the stairs to the cabin below.• Jerry ran up the stairs.• I hopped out the door and watched the old man being taken down the stairs to the platform.

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2 [countableC]DHHTBB one of the steps in a set of stairs 梯級

Lucy sat down on the bottom stair.

露西在樓梯最下面的一級上坐了下來。

3. [singular] literaryDHHTBB a staircase 〔室内的〕樓梯

4. below stairs British EnglishBrE old-fashionedLOW POSITION OR RANK in the servants’ part of a large house, in the past 〔舊時〕在傭人住的地方

Examples from the Corpus

below stairs• He stirred as below stairs the maid tinkled a bell, the sign for dinner.• Delgard had assured him that St Joseph's no longer kept its dead below stairs.• The air of excitement was as great below stairs as it was above.• Mrs Gracie, left below stairs, set her lips.• To clean all the rooms below stairs.

Examples from the Corpus

stair• The original idea was that the library would be symmetrical with the entrance and stairs in the centre.• Every flush meant carrying a bucket of water up three flights of stairs.• The second stair creaks when you step on it.• Would it be best to accept another cup of tea before trying to climb the stairs?• As I climbed the stairs I wondered if I could handle the present situation calmly and tactfully even a bit subserviently.• They carried her up and down the stairs, sang her songs.• Friends will call, thundering up and down the stairs.• I can hear him on the stairs.• Her head pounding, she took the stairs to the second floor two at a time.• I heard footsteps coming up the stair.

Origin stair

Old English stæger

stair noun

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