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Ladder Climb Walk Steps Moving Run N Count 可数名词

英语单词 ladder
英美音标 英 ['lædə(r)] 美 ['lædər]
中文释义 n.阶梯;梯子;梯状物
英语例句 (1) Diligence is often a ladder to success.
(2) He was halfway down the ladder when he fell.
(3) This ladder isn't very stable.
(4) It's considered unlucky to walk under a ladder.
中文例句 (1) 勤勉常常是通往成功的阶梯。
(2) 他下阶梯时,半路摔倒了。
(3) 这架梯子不太牢靠。
(4) 从梯子下面走过被认为是不吉利的。
vocabulary简明 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.
vocabulary扩展 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.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]梯子 A ladder is a piece of equipment used for climbing up something or down from something. It consists of two long pieces of wood, metal, or rope with steps fixed between them.
    2
    [N-SING 单数名词](社会、组织或系统中晋升或降级的)梯级,阶梯 You can use the ladder to refer to something such as a society, organization, or system which has different levels that people can progress up or drop down.
      [the N]
    • If they want to climb the ladder of success they should be given that opportunity...

      假如他们有出人头地的意愿,就应该给他们那样的机会。

    • She admired her mother's sister for moving up the social ladder.

      她羡慕姨妈社会地位的提升。

    3
    [N-COUNT 可数名词](女性长筒袜或裤袜的)抽丝,脱线 A ladder is a hole or torn part in a woman's stocking or tights, where some of the vertical threads have broken, leaving only the horizontal threads.
      [mainly BRIT 主英]
    • Her hair was a mess and there was a ladder in her tights.

      她头发乱糟糟,裤袜脱了线。

    in AM, use 美国英语用 run

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