- 1高樓、高層建築
A high-rise is a tall building with many floors, usually flats or offices stacked one on top of another. As an adjective: a high-rise apartment, a high-rise block. As a noun: they live in a high-rise. Rise here is the building going up, not getting out of bed. Cities use the word for towers that change the ; a two-storey house is not a high-rise, and neither is a mountain. There is a quieter pair, low-rise, for shorter blocks. Some people say tower block instead. The feeling is urban and modern — a place you take a lift, not a church .
high-rise 指很多層的高樓，多半是住宅或辦公室一層層疊上去。當形容詞用，常見的是「a high-rise apartment」（高樓公寓）、「a high-rise block」（一棟高樓）；當名詞用時，像「they live in a high-rise」（他們住在高樓裡）。這裡的 rise 指的是樓往上蓋，不是起床的意思。
城市常用它來指會改變天際線的大樓。兩層樓的房子不是 high-rise，山也不是。相對的是比較矮的低層建築。這個字的感覺偏都市、現代，是要搭電梯上去的地方，不是教堂的尖塔。
From the word’s history
high + rise; compare mid-rise.
由 high 加 rise 組成。
組成From high + rise. High = tall. Rise = going up (here, floor after floor).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
high-risenoun
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A tall building, one consisting of many storeys.
high-riseadj
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Designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips.
- high-rise jeans
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