| 单词 | ladder |
| 释义 | ladder (once / 339 pages) 1n 2nv If your ball lands on the roof, grab a ladder and climb up and get it. A ladder has steps you use to reach up high. If you climb the corporate ladder, you’re moving up in the business world. Some ladders are just a few feet tall, and others are taller than a house. Still others are invisible –- any time you move up in your career as a banker or NFL football player, you climb the ladder. In British English, a ladder is a run in stockings, which is funny because it usually looks like one. The superstition that it's bad luck to walk under an open ladder dates from the eighteenth century. WORD FAMILYladder: laddered, laddering, ladders USAGE EXAMPLESSunday showed a “lone individual” climbing the mountain, scaling the sign’s ladders and hanging tarpaulins over the O’s to change them to E’s, said Sgt. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Seattle police are investigating a crash between a fire engine and a ladder truck, which led the ladder truck to plow into a massage business. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) They will not be permitted to walk under ladders. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down Hypo|Hyper articulated ladder a ladder consisting of segments (usually four) that are held together by joints that can lock in place extension laddera ladder whose length can be extended Jacob's ladder, jack ladder, pilot ladder(nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps monkey laddera light ladder to the monkey bridge on a ship rope laddera ladder with side pieces of rope scaling laddera ladder used to scale walls (as in an attack) sea ladder, sea steps(nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard step ladder, stepladdera folding portable ladder hinged at the top accommodation ladder(nautical) a portable ladder hung over the side of a vessel to give access to small boats alongside aerial laddermechanically extendible ladder; used on a fire truck stairs, steps a flight of stairs or a flight of steps 2n ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress 2he climbed the career ladder Hyper degree, level, point, stage a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process 1n a row of unravelled stitches Syn|Hyper ravel, run damage, harm, impairment the occurrence of a change for the worse 2v come unraveled or undone as if by snagging Syn|Hyper run run, unravel become undone break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up become separated into pieces or fragments |
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