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skyscraper

英 ['skaɪskreɪpə]美 ['skaɪ'skrepɚ]

n. 摩天樓，超高層大樓；特別高的東西

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記憶方法

1. 刮到天的樓。

英語詞源

skyscraper (n.)

very tall urban building, 1888, in a Chicago context, from sky (n.) + agent noun of scrape (v.). Used earlier for "ornament atop a building" (1883), "very tall man" (1857), "high-flying bird" (1840), "light sail at the top of a mast" (1794), and the name of a racehorse (1789). Compare cognate French gratte-ciel

, from gratter "to scrape" + ciel "sky;" German Wolkenkratzer, from Wolke "cloud" + Kratzer "scraper."

cloud-cleaver, an imaginary sail jokingly assumed to be carried by Yankee ships. [W. Clark Russell, "Sailors' Word Book," 1883]

權威例句

1. A skyscraper has been erected.

一棟摩天大樓拔地而起.

2. The skyscraper towers into the clouds.

那幢摩天大樓高聳入雲.

3. With an elevator in the skyscraper , we can easily go up and down.

摩天樓裏有電梯, 上下很方便.

4. The first modern - style skyscraper rose a stubby ten stories above Chicago's streets.

第一座現代風格的摩天大廈在芝加哥的大街上升起矮墩墩的十層.

5. Soon I was stepped into the plush comfort of a skyscraper office.

不久之後,我又踏入了一間摩天大廈中的極其舒適的辦公室.

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