escalator英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Anything that escalates.

— Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation.
A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

— There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
An upward or progressive course.

— Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream
An escalator clause.

— They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

动词 v.

To move by escalator. informal,intransitive

— We escalatored to the second floor.

词形变化

escalators plural escalators present,singular,third-person escalatoring participle,present escalatored participle,past escalatored past

词汇关系

衍生词

downalator escalator barrel escalator clause escalator school escalefter

词源

词源 1

From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin ē- (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency; see the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by its derivative escalate, by surface analysis, escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.

词源 2

From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin ē- (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency; see the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by its derivative escalate, by surface analysis, escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.