escalator 详细解释

escalator

['eskəleitə]

n. 自动扶梯

n.[C]

1. 自动楼梯, 电扶梯

The new store has escalators to carry customers from one floor to another.

这家新商店有自动扶梯将顾客从一层楼面运送到另一层楼面。

2. (工资等)按生活指数作出调整的条款

词形变化

名词复数：escalators

词义辨析

同义:

n.手扶梯

moving staircase  moving stairway  elevator  lift  

英英释义

名词 escalator:

a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)

同义词：escalator clause

a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt

同义词：moving staircase, moving stairway

补充

escalatorescalator英:[ˈeskəleitə] 美:[ˈɛskəˌletɚ]n.1.自动扶梯I don't like escalator—I'll climb the stairs.我不喜欢自动扶梯, 我要爬楼梯。

例句

1. Shall we use the escalator or the lift?我们坐扶梯还是直梯呢？

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