step-off
阶梯式,阶梯式的,跨越式,阶梯型
Definitions
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- : an abrupt drop, as from a shoreline into deep water.
Examples
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
But Brooke was out of step with the New Left and its notion of radical chic.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
In the 21st century women are earning their equality every step of the way… including the bedroom.
The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
But, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.
Sol got up, slowly; took a backward step into the yard; filled his lungs, opened his mouth, made his eyes round.
She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.
The sound of my step shall make your heart jump; a look from me shall make you dumb for an hour.