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词汇 walk-up
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Definition of walk-up in English:

walk-up

noun
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. 1.1 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-up

adjectiveˈwôk ˌəpˈwɔk ˌəp
  • 1(of a building) allowing access to the upper floors by stairs only; having no elevator.

    (大楼)无电梯的

    a walk-up hotel

    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. 1.1 (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.
    2. 1.2 (of a building or service) easily accessible to pedestrians.
      a walk-up food stand
      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.
    3. 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
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