Elevator
['elɪveɪtə] or ['ɛlɪvetɚ]
解释:
(noun.) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building.
(noun.) the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend.
整理:希欧多尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything
(n.) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.
(n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.
(n.) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
(n.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
(n.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
手打:托德
娱乐性解释：
To dream of ascending in an elevator, denotes you will swiftly rise to position and wealth, but if you descend in one your misfortunes will crush and discourage you. If you see one go down and think you are left, you will narrowly escape disappointment in some undertaking. To see one standing, foretells threatened danger.
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例句:
- In the hydraulic form of elevator, a motor worked by water is employed to lift the car, although steam power is also employed to raise the water. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The walls are 15 feet thick at the base, and 18 inches at the top, and its summit is reached by an internal winding staircase and a central elevator. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The elevator rose steadily and stopped. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- It is by means of the modern elevator that the business of a whole town may be transacted under a single roof. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- While moving on this elevator the cases are cooled so that they can be handled as soon as they are lowered. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- I paid the driver, and then we rode upstairs in the elevator. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Here is also a chain elevator, which raises the wheels out of the freight cars to a runaway on which they travel by gravity to the third floor of the main factory. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- He knew where every elevator shaft and boiler and fire-wall was, and also how much gas each resident used and what he paid for it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Of close kin to the elevator are the _fire escape_, _dumb waiter_ and _grain elevator_, each of which fills a more or less important function in the life of to-day. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- It has been called an elevator with the doors always open. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- And he darted to the elevator to forestall the two women. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This, in its latest form known as the gearless traction elevator, does away with all intricate machinery, and yields a machine moving with equal speed whatever the height. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Mention has already been made of office and other elevators, in which compressed air is an important factor in operating the same and for preventing accidents. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The century was half through with before it was proposed to use water and steam for passenger elevators. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Not only are passengers conveyed up and down by electric elevators in skyscrapers, but the buildings themselves are erected by means of electricity. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The Story in Elevators and Escalators[15] 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The operating-room referred to was on the fifth floor of the building with no elevators. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The supplies for cities and for families are estimated, measured and recorded as easily as are the supplies of illuminating gas, or the flow of food from elevators. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The summit of the tower was reached by staircases containing 1,793 steps, and by hydraulic elevators running in four stages. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Then came the overhead circuits for distributing electrical energy to motors for operating elevators, driving machinery, etc. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
录入:内德