stairs

读音

• /ˈstɛəz/ Received-Pronunciation
• /ˈstɛɹz/ General-American

释义

1. stair 的複數

   stair 的词形 form-of

   form-of

2. 樓梯

   At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]

   1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:

   We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

   我们蹑手蹑脚地走进屋子，爬上楼梯，沿着走廊进入教授待过很长时间的房间。

   1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，第13章，收錄於Mr. Pratt's Patients：