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stairway

/stair-wey/US // ˈstɛərˌweɪ //UK // (ˈstɛəˌweɪ) //

楼梯,楼梯间,楼道,楼梯口

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a passageway from one level, as of a building, to another by a series of stairs; staircase.

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Examples

  • Water-tight doors that can be closed during storms have been placed at tunnel entrances and similar systems are being rolled out at vulnerable station entrances and stairways.

  • Other linkages include trees, windows, corridors, stairways, flames and rosy skies over coastlines.

  • Among his legacies are the rustic, hand-built stone stairways found on some of Acadia’s steepest slopes.

  • Among them was the installation of a wooden stairway to the second floor of the theater, having more than the 16 steps allowed for a stairway at that building, and for installing a wood stage on the second floor.

  • Bucca hung up the phone and started up the stairway with fellow fire marshal John Devery.

  • I look around the stairway, and I see Al Capone and another guy sitting in the living room having a beef about ‘receipts.’

  • And now that same song, “Stairway to Heaven” is at the center of another battle over ownership.

  • For more than a half-century before “Stairway to Heaven,” recording artists had been doing this, usually with impunity.

  • Despite what some have claimed, the cited passages from “Stairway to Heaven” and “Spirit” are not identical.

  • “We saw the smoke pouring out of the window,” and she darted in and started up the front stairway.

  • A narrow, circular stairway leads to the tower, from which the beauty of the location is at once apparent.

  • Black Hood stood in that shadowy stairway and was himself like one of the shadows—watching, listening, waiting for his time.

  • He turned, stumbled over a fallen form, caught his balance, and then took the stairway in long strides.

  • Edna hastened upstairs by a private stairway that led from the rear of the store to the apartments above.