escalator
自动扶梯,扶梯,电扶梯,自动梯
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Definitions
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- : a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
- : a means of rising or descending, increasing or decreasing, etc., especially by stages: the social escalator.
- : escalator clause.
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- : of, relating to, or included in an escalator clause: The union demands escalator protection of wages.
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Examples
When I went to buy exercise pants at a Ross’s Dress for Less, whose parent company, Ross Stores, is run by a woman, a sign on a brown paper bag informed me that the escalator was broken.
Of the city metro system’s 467 escalators, 22 are inoperable at any given time.
Her father, Tyrone, grew up in Ivy City and works as an escalator technician for Metro.
Among the most notable is Gate 35X, which requires passengers to wait upstairs before taking an escalator down to a holding area where they waited to be loaded onto shuttle buses to their flight.
Other projects include purchasing the latest model of rail car, replacing escalators and station lighting, buying 90 new buses and rolling out a mobile fare payment system and app.
As she ducked out of the Sheraton fundraiser, she met a group of women coming at her on the up escalator.
Five minutes later, Grace bounds down the stationary escalator, clutching a bacon cheeseburger and a Coke.
So I quickly made way down the escalator to the baggage claim and into the car pickup area.
My escort tucked all eight copies under his arm, and we headed back to the escalator.
So, we rode up an escalator—a very long escalator—and found the book.
Beardsley stepped onto the corridor slidewalk, coasted to the escalator and rode it down.