| 单词 | on the stair |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the stair Still the ordinary use in Scotland, where ‘up the stair’, ‘down the stair’ are the usual equivalents for upstairs, downstairs, and ‘(to go up) six stairs’ means what in England would be expressed by ‘six flights of stairs’. (The whole series of steps between two successive floors counts, however, as a single ‘stair’, even when it consists of two or more ‘flights’ or portions separated by a landing.) In England the singular in this sense is now very rare, except in on the stair, which is itself slightly archaic.extracted from stairn.< as lemmas |
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