| 单词 | escalator |
| 释义 | es·ca·la·tor I. 1. 2. < promised them a place on a never-stopping escalator of economic progress — D.W.Brogan > < rode the escalator right behind him — first to the governorship of his native Veracruz, then to the Ministry of Interior — Time > < man had at last found an escalator to heaven … had put his foot on the first tread, and time would take care of the rest — Social Welfare Forum > 3. < many American workers won wage advances, cost-of-living wage escalators, various fringe benefits, and strengthening of union security through collective bargaining — Americana Annual > < enough to tilt the index into a new high bracket and give a million auto-industry workers a cent-an-hour pay increase under the terms of their escalator — J.A.Loftus > II. 1. < steelworkers whose escalator contracts adjust wages to the government's consumer price index — Newsweek > < the introduction of an escalator arrangement tying the base pay of servicemen to living costs and adjustable at one to two-year intervals — New York Times > 2. < asked for escalator clauses which would enlarge the amount of the loan as prices go up — Newsweek > < an escalator plan for state colleges under which one grade will be desegregated each year — Eric Sevareid > |
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