单词	escalator
释义	escalator From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Buildingescalatores‧ca‧la‧tor /ˈeskəleɪtə $ -ər/ ●●○ noun [countable]  TBa set of moving stairs that take people to different levels in a buildingExamples from the Corpusescalator• Internal Transport Those who fly in are carried by escalator down to a railway platform.• On the other escalator, he decided to ride all the way down.• I could never find the escalators, or the door I came in when it was time to go out.• Stepping from the escalator he loped across the record department to find the other set of escalators.• He retreats along the corridor and passes the three injured, shooting another student in front of the escalators.• In fact it was only fifteen minutes by bike to the escalators.• They took the escalator down to the lower level and the Grillapolis café.Origin escalator (1900-2000) escalade “to climb up” ((16-21 centuries)) (from French, from Italian scalare) + elevator
随便看	be excited etc at the prospect of be excited/alarmed/concerned etc at the prospect (of something) be excused from be excused from (doing) something be excused from doing be exiled from be exiled from something be exiled to be exiled to something be expecting be expecting (a baby) be expecting a baby be expressive of be expressive of something be expressly etc forbidden be extensively etc documented be faced with be faced with concrete etc be faced with something be faced with stone etc be faced with stone/concrete etc be fair be fair! be falling apart at the seams be falling to bits

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