樓梯底下的那一區
這一支保留的是舊時大宅的空間安排：主人住在樓上，廚房和僕役的生活區在樓梯下方那一層，於是「樓梯底下」就成了那個區域的代稱。
below stairs · noun · C2
In the rooms of a big house where the servants worked and lived, long ago.
僕人住處
核心畫面
Picture one step in a flight — a single flat surface you put a foot on, on the way from one floor to the next. Everyday English almost always talks about the whole flight instead, and for that it uses the plural: the stairs. One old phrase, below stairs, still points at where those steps used to lead in a grand house.
可以想成：樓梯中的一階——你踩上去的那一塊平面，是從這一層走到下一層的其中一步。不過日常英文幾乎都在講整道樓梯，而講…更多收起
可以想成：樓梯中的一階——你踩上去的那一塊平面，是從這一層走到下一層的其中一步。不過日常英文幾乎都在講整道樓梯，而講整道時要用複數 the stairs。另外還留著一句老話 below stairs，指的是舊時大宅裡那道階梯通往的地方。From the picture
Also in this word
single step · noun · A2
A single step, one of the many that together make a staircase.
一階樓梯
staircase · noun · A1
A set of steps that you walk up or down to get from one floor of a building to another.
樓梯
staircase, whole flight · noun · C1
A whole set of steps inside a building, going from one floor to another.
樓梯
原始詞典資料3 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。
Stairname
- 1
A surname.
stairnoun/stɛɚ/
- 1
A single step in a staircase.
- 2
A series of steps; a staircase.
- Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …
- Among other work done, according to the letter: CPR replaced the bottom of a deteriorating stair column base with hollow steel structural sections; conducted exploratory demolition on the underside of an eave that required “removal and reconstruction”; and removed all loose “cracked, spalled, deteriorated, and delaminated concrete” and damaged stucco from the underside of balcony eaves on 114 of the building’s 136 units, the letter said.
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。