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/ˈeskəleɪtər/ · /ˈeskəleɪtə/
A moving staircase that carries people up or down between floors of a building.
電扶梯
複數 escalators
核心畫面
Picture the metal staircase in a department store that is already moving before you get on it. You step on one step, stand still, and the carry you up to the next floor. The whole idea sits in that one image: that do the climbing for you.
可以想成：百貨公司裡那道你還沒踏上去就已經在動的金屬樓梯。你踩上一階、站著不動，樓梯就把你送到樓上。這個字的意思幾乎…更多收起
可以想成：百貨公司裡那道你還沒踏上去就已經在動的金屬樓梯。你踩上一階、站著不動，樓梯就把你送到樓上。這個字的意思幾乎就等於這個畫面——會自己走的樓梯。跟 elevator（電梯，一個上下移動的箱子）差在它是一階一階連續的斜坡，人可以邊搭邊走。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
escalatornoun/ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/
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Anything that escalates.
- Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation.
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A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
- There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
- It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations.
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An upward or progressive course.
- Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream
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An escalator clause.
- They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.
escalatorverb/ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/
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informalTo move by escalator.
- We escalatored to the second floor.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。