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noun rʌŋrəŋ 1A horizontal support on a ladder for a person's foot. 梯子横档，梯级 Example sentencesExamples - He used the advantage of the adrenaline and the upper body strength he had to pull himself up one rung.
- He placed a foot on the first rung of the ladder on the side of the freighter and began to climb, hefting himself up onto the roof.
- Upon opening the hatch we were looking down a large corrugated pipe, with rebar ladder rungs, descending vertically for thirty feet into the darkness.
- The rungs of the ladder are sharp against her bare feet.
- When you're young and a ladder is thrust in front of you, you don't wonder how high it is or think about the strength of its rungs; you clamber on up.
- I stepped out, swung around, grabbed the other side of the ladder and placed my foot on the proper rung.
- He stood, his foot on the lower rungs of a ladder that led to the upper shelves, with his weight propped on his elevated knee.
- That wouldn't buy them much time, Sydney knew, so she steeled herself and placed one foot on the first rung of the ladder.
- So the boy let his father fix the rope around his waist, and instruct him in how to climb over the edge and find the rungs of the ladder.
- Then I didn't have the strength to do anything but hook my arm through a rung and hold on while I sucked air and my lungs ached.
- Without the Nomex gloves, required for takeoff and landing because of the fire risk, the ladder rungs and safety pole are like burning embers.
- 1.1 A level in a hierarchical structure, especially a class or career structure.
〈喻〉梯级，梯阶（尤指社会等级或职业结构） we must ensure that the low-skilled do not get trapped on the bottom rung 我们必须确保低技能工人不致陷入社会的最底层。 Example sentencesExamples - The arrangement is designed to allow young couples to get a foot on the first rung of the housing ladder.
- Firms have reduced the total number of job descriptions, stripping rungs from the job ladders that were traditionally climbed by less-skilled workers.
- New research by the Bank of Scotland shows that first-time buyers north of the Border are still able to get their foot on the first rung of the housing ladder.
- Now with a foot firmly on the lower rungs of the ladder to rockdom, it's hard not to imagine that they will do anything but ascend.
- Making casual work illegal, by such devices as minimum wage laws and ludicrously restrictive safety regulations, is a complete disaster for the poor, because it destroys the first few rungs of the economic ladder.
Synonyms level, rank, position, standing, status, station, degree, grade, stage, standard, echelon, point, mark, step, notch
2A strengthening crosspiece in the structure of a chair. （椅子的）横档 Example sentencesExamples - In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair.
- Grabbing the rung of the chair he pulled him over next to the wall.
- Kitchen chairs or stools that have rungs are especially helpful, as it can be tiring for your daughter if her feet don't reach the floor.
- I reached down and pulled my binder up from the metal rungs on the underneath of my chair that held books.
- I watch her as she pulls one of the mold-spattered kitchen chairs across the room and perches girlishly on the edge of it, her bare feet splayed over the rungs.
Derivativesadjective He balanced himself on a runged chair, as he leaned against the wall of one of the stalls.
adjective Through shifting openings in the clouds of dust they could see that it was rungless in places, rickety, tottering.
OriginOld English hrung (in sense 2); related to Dutch rong and German Runge. Rhymesamong, bung, clung, dung, flung, hung, lung, outflung, shantung, slung, sprung, strung, stung, sung, swung, tongue, underslung, wrung, young nounrəŋrəNG 1A horizontal support on a ladder for a person's foot. 梯子横档，梯级 Example sentencesExamples - He placed a foot on the first rung of the ladder on the side of the freighter and began to climb, hefting himself up onto the roof.
- So the boy let his father fix the rope around his waist, and instruct him in how to climb over the edge and find the rungs of the ladder.
- I stepped out, swung around, grabbed the other side of the ladder and placed my foot on the proper rung.
- Then I didn't have the strength to do anything but hook my arm through a rung and hold on while I sucked air and my lungs ached.
- Without the Nomex gloves, required for takeoff and landing because of the fire risk, the ladder rungs and safety pole are like burning embers.
- He stood, his foot on the lower rungs of a ladder that led to the upper shelves, with his weight propped on his elevated knee.
- He used the advantage of the adrenaline and the upper body strength he had to pull himself up one rung.
- The rungs of the ladder are sharp against her bare feet.
- When you're young and a ladder is thrust in front of you, you don't wonder how high it is or think about the strength of its rungs; you clamber on up.
- Upon opening the hatch we were looking down a large corrugated pipe, with rebar ladder rungs, descending vertically for thirty feet into the darkness.
- That wouldn't buy them much time, Sydney knew, so she steeled herself and placed one foot on the first rung of the ladder.
- 1.1 A level in a hierarchical structure, especially a class or career structure.
〈喻〉梯级，梯阶（尤指社会等级或职业结构） we must ensure that the unskilled do not get trapped on the bottom rung 我们必须确保低技能工人不致陷入社会的最底层。 Example sentencesExamples - The arrangement is designed to allow young couples to get a foot on the first rung of the housing ladder.
- New research by the Bank of Scotland shows that first-time buyers north of the Border are still able to get their foot on the first rung of the housing ladder.
- Now with a foot firmly on the lower rungs of the ladder to rockdom, it's hard not to imagine that they will do anything but ascend.
- Firms have reduced the total number of job descriptions, stripping rungs from the job ladders that were traditionally climbed by less-skilled workers.
- Making casual work illegal, by such devices as minimum wage laws and ludicrously restrictive safety regulations, is a complete disaster for the poor, because it destroys the first few rungs of the economic ladder.
Synonyms level, rank, position, standing, status, station, degree, grade, stage, standard, echelon, point, mark, step, notch
2A strengthening crosspiece in the structure of a chair. （椅子的）横档 Example sentencesExamples - I reached down and pulled my binder up from the metal rungs on the underneath of my chair that held books.
- Kitchen chairs or stools that have rungs are especially helpful, as it can be tiring for your daughter if her feet don't reach the floor.
- In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair.
- I watch her as she pulls one of the mold-spattered kitchen chairs across the room and perches girlishly on the edge of it, her bare feet splayed over the rungs.
- Grabbing the rung of the chair he pulled him over next to the wall.
OriginOld English hrung (in rung (sense 2)); related to Dutch rong and German Runge. |