释义 |
Definition of walk-up in English: walk-upnoun North American 1A building allowing access to the upper floors by stairs only. (大楼)无电梯的 a studio apartment in an ungentrified walk-up as modifier a walk-up hotel Example sentencesExamples - He held to a value system he couldn't find in Kenwood, or in the bug-infested walk-ups, or in the shelters.
- It was an 80-floor walk-up, we were saying, and they'd better book the next day off.
- Glouberman lives in a walk-up next door to The Beaconsfield; his roof-top patio overlooks the site where the bar wants to build theirs.
- One of the most interesting spaces to open recently is the South African-run Axis Gallery, located on the top floor of a tiny walk-up at 453 West 17th Street.
- I'm also on the fourth floor of a walk-up, so racing up and down is not an option.
- Within a few days of settling in to my apartment in a four-story walk-up, I plunged into the novel.
- I was not married; I lived in a five-story walk-up in the East Village; I worked freelance; and I would have to go on bed rest in March.
- They explored solutions such as taking down some of the towers and adding walk-ups.
- Immigrants felt they had truly made it in the New World when they traded in their four-storey walk-up for a four-car garage.
- He carted them all back to his rent-stabilized walk-up on the Upper East Side.
- On a weeknight in early February, the front line in the battle to privatize America's public schools reached the top floor of a five-story walk-up in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
- Instead I had a dodgy job for a dodgier boss, working out of a four floor walk-up above a bridal wholesalers in Soho.
Synonyms ascend, mount, scale, scramble up, clamber up, shin up - 1.1 A room or flat in a walk-up building.
Example sentencesExamples - Number nine was a fourth-floor walk-up on Avenue B. Walls.
- Kokhi's parents' place is a tiny top-floor walk-up in one of the slummy blocks that line Hebron Road on its way out of town.
- Williams says she already feels more energetic, and she's finally able to visit her sister, who lives in a third-floor walk-up.
- She had budgeted $140,000 for a two-bedroom home in a modern building with an elevator, but had to settle for a one-bedroom, third-floor walk-up in a building built in 1936.
- When I met Mamie, she was living in her sixth-floor walk-up.
- ‘It was her example and selfless service, raising four boys in a fourth floor walk-up that made the difference’.
- Living in Chicago, her apartment was a second story walk-up.
- I live in a fourth-floor walk-up in Brooklyn; I do not need a whole lot of gardening hints.
- His studio was like a creepy one-room place that was a walk-up on top of a deli, so it smelled real weird.
- She had never been to a place like that before - a fifth floor walk-up along a dingy staircase, a room papered in heavy metal posters.
- Many experts say today's twenty-somethings don't want to downscale by sharing a walk-up with three roommates when their middle class parents have a house where they can crash.
- The Reuben Gallery, by contrast, was a third-floor walk-up in a small, aging building.
- So, you tell me, why am I sitting here in a rented second floor walk-up, albeit at the beach, awaiting the outcome of possible condemnation resulting from six violations of the city housing code?
- I could slap her slum landlord with a fine, a whipping or a public egging for failing to fix the elevator to her third floor walk-up.
- I lived in a small corner of a huge three bedroom flat, a dank leaking walk-up above a convenience store.
- Ms. Dinoire's mother, returning to her third-floor walk-up with a plastic bag of groceries, waved off a reporter last week.
- Doron and Liz were sharing a sixth-floor walk-up in the tangled heart of the Marais, and I was a mere ten-minute walk to the east, in a studio on the edge of the artsy 11th arrondissement.
- He lived in… squalor might be too strong a word, but his last apartment was a 6th-floor walk-up.
Definition of walk-up in US English: walk-upadjectiveˈwôk ˌəpˈwɔk ˌəp 1(of a building) allowing access to the upper floors by stairs only; having no elevator. (大楼)无电梯的 无电梯的旅馆。 Example sentencesExamples - He had an office in my grandmother's dilapidated walk-up office building.
- This walk-up design envisioned one layer of two-story row houses on top of an identical layer of row houses.
- 1.1 (of a room or apartment) accessed by stairs.
(房间,公寓)无电梯大楼里的 Example sentencesExamples - Wait till we paint, or put up some art… then I'll be happy to show off our walk-up penthouse.
- From our rundown walk-up office on Spadina, we threw together campaigns against cruise missiles and nuclear power.
- Living in a walk-up apartment as a cripple is sure to be hell.
- After first moving there in the winter of 1940, Guthrie met and lived with the legendary bluesman Leadbelly and his wife Martha in their cramped walk-up apartment on the lower East Side.
- To some, inner Berlin is a grim city made of walk-up flats round dingy courtyards - but the ways of living that these embody are loved by the citizens.
- In a third-floor walk-up gallery next door to a Church Street bookshop, a handful of youthful students is learning how to loosen society's oppressive grip.
- Besides, I dare you to come up with something more fun than shopping for wedding dresses and a new walk-up apartment with crutches.
- I forgot the movie but I remember coming home to our Brooklyn walk-up apartment to see the somber look on the faces of my parents as they stared into the floor radio and listened intently to the war reports.
- 1.2 (of a building or service) easily accessible to pedestrians.
Example sentencesExamples - About 2/3 way through the trip, the train makes one intermediate station stop near where there is a walk-up trail to the top of the mountain.
- Hanrahan said the Bay and Broad facility will offer a walk-up window for customers, as well as a drive-up ATM.
- It's a large, sit-down restaurant, open late nights, with a walk-up window of course.
- You can get an ice cream cone the size of your head for two bucks at the Twist of the Mist - a walk-up ice cream shop shaped like a giant ice cream cone.
- The apartments have private balconies and porches linked to walk-up stoops, mimicking the privately owned houses in the neighborhood.
- 1.3 (of a travel fare) at the price charged for immediate use rather than at the lower level provided when a customer makes a reservation in advance.
the one-way walk-up fare from Baltimore to San Francisco Example sentencesExamples - So, even before SimpliFares, the network carriers lowered many walk-up and advance-purchase fares to match prices charged by LCCs on those competitive routes.
nounˈwôk ˌəpˈwɔk ˌəp North American A building allowing access to the upper floors by stairs only. (大楼)无电梯的 Example sentencesExamples - Instead I had a dodgy job for a dodgier boss, working out of a four floor walk-up above a bridal wholesalers in Soho.
- Within a few days of settling in to my apartment in a four-story walk-up, I plunged into the novel.
- Immigrants felt they had truly made it in the New World when they traded in their four-storey walk-up for a four-car garage.
- On a weeknight in early February, the front line in the battle to privatize America's public schools reached the top floor of a five-story walk-up in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
- I'm also on the fourth floor of a walk-up, so racing up and down is not an option.
- He carted them all back to his rent-stabilized walk-up on the Upper East Side.
- It was an 80-floor walk-up, we were saying, and they'd better book the next day off.
- He held to a value system he couldn't find in Kenwood, or in the bug-infested walk-ups, or in the shelters.
- I was not married; I lived in a five-story walk-up in the East Village; I worked freelance; and I would have to go on bed rest in March.
- Glouberman lives in a walk-up next door to The Beaconsfield; his roof-top patio overlooks the site where the bar wants to build theirs.
- They explored solutions such as taking down some of the towers and adding walk-ups.
- One of the most interesting spaces to open recently is the South African-run Axis Gallery, located on the top floor of a tiny walk-up at 453 West 17th Street.
Synonyms ascend, mount, scale, scramble up, clamber up, shin up |