| 单词 | moving staircase |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoving staircase moving staircase n. an escalator; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > escalator moving staircase1897 moving stairway1897 escalator1900 moving stair1901 1897 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 15 June 2/5 A moving staircase for passengers, in the shape of an endless leather belt transferring them from one story to an other. 1910 Daily News 2 July 10 In the course of the hearing counsel referred to a proposed moving staircase as an ‘escalator’. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xiii. 309 All food-particles strained off by the gills are driven up to the dorsal groove. Here they..are passed on by this sort of moving staircase to be digested in the intestine. 1990 T. Pratchett Diggers 28 The Store had been pretty impressive, what with the moving staircases and so on. 2009 K. S. Robinson Galileo's Dream (2010) 255 She..led him to another moving staircase, which carried them up its long incline. < as lemmas |
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