below stairs

短语

在地下室

别名

below-stairs

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building.

    过时
  2. 2.

    In or pertaining to the lowest levels of a large house where the house staff work and are accommodated, contrasted with above stairs where the owning family reside.

    英国 历史

    1972, Robertson Davies, The Manticore, Toronto: New Canadian Library, 2015, Part 2, Chapter 1, Children always lived closer to the servants than their elders, and Caroline and I never knew where we stood with anybody, and sometimes found ourselves hostages in dark, below-stairs intrigues.

  3. 3.

    Common, vulgar.

    引申义
  4. 4.

    The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.

    英国 历史

词源

From below + stairs.

来源：wiktionary