upstairs
                
          英 [?p'ste?z]
美 [,?p'st?rz]
        
                
          
            - adv. 在樓上,向樓上;上樓;往樓上
- adj. 樓上的
- n. 樓上
 
        
                
                英文詞源
        
        - upstairs (adv.)
- 1590s, from up (adv.) + stairs (see stair). As an adjective from 1782. The noun is first attested 1872. Adjectival meaning "characteristic of upstairs life" (in private rooms of a household, as opposed to servants' quarters) is recorded from 1942.
 
 He [Halifax] had said he had known many kicked down stairs, but he never knew any kicked up stairs before. [Gilbert Burnet, supplement to "History of My own Time," from his original memoirs, c. 1697] 
雙語例句
        
        - 1. You don't have to go running upstairs every time she rings. 
- 用不著她一來電話你就往樓上跑。
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- 2. They actually moved down from upstairs because the rent's that expensive. 
- 他們確實從樓上搬到了樓下,因為房租太貴了。
來自柯林斯例句
 
- 3. The restaurant is upstairs and consists of a large, open room. 
- 飯店在樓上,有一個寬敞的開間。
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- 4. She climbed the steps and proceeded along the upstairs hallway. 
- 她爬上樓梯,順著樓上的走廊走去。
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- 5. When the great man arrived, the club's manager personally escorted him upstairs. 
- 那位要人到達時,俱樂部經理親自陪他上樓。
來自柯林斯例句