stair

A2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #25589 ★★☆☆☆

n. 梯级, 楼梯, 阶梯

发音

US /stɛɚ/
UK /stɛə/
其它 /stɜː(ɹ)/
AU /steː/
NZ /stiə/
NZ /steə/
SCOT /steɹ/

词形变化

stairs 复数 stairs

别名

stayre steare

教材释义与例句

名词

楼梯，阶梯；梯级

a set of steps built for going from one level of a building to another

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

我们往上走了四段楼梯。

释义与例句

n. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A single step in a staircase.

    台阶

  2. 2.

    A series of steps; a staircase.

    楼梯

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

step

上位词 1

support

下位词 3

corbel-step corbiestep crowstep

部分词 2

tread riser

整体词 2

staircase stairway

相关短语

stair railings stair hall stair halls stair lift stair rod n. （楼梯上防止地毯滑落的）地毯棍 stair rods (stair-rod 的复数) n. （楼梯上防止地毯滑落的）地毯棍 stair gate stair gates stair wire stair glider stair gliders stair lifts stair wires

词源

From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English stǣġer (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”). Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to Old English āstǣġan (“to ascend, go up, embark”), Old English stīġan (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty.

来源：wiktionary