elevator

エレベーター

建物の階と階の間で、人や荷物を上下に運ぶ装置。

やさしい英語で： A machine that carries people or goods up and down between floors in a building.

• Take the elevator upstairs.
• The elevator stopped on the fourth floor.
• Are both elevators working today?

類義語： lift

よく使う表現： take the elevator, elevator doors, elevator button

穀物サイロ

穀物を保管するための大きな建物や背の高い容器。

やさしい英語で： A large building or tall container used to store grain.

• The wheat goes into the grain elevator.
• Several elevators stand beside the railway.
• Farmers delivered their harvest to the elevator.

類義語： silo, grain silo

よく使う表現： grain elevator, wheat elevator, elevator storage

エレベーターに乗る

エレベーターに乗って別の階へ上がったり下りたりする。

やさしい英語で： To travel up or down in a machine that carries people between floors.

• We elevatored up to our room.
• She elevatored down to the lobby.
• They elevatored to the tenth floor.

使い方： elevator up/down to something (We elevatored up to the rooftop restaurant.)

類義語： take the elevator, take the lift

よく使う表現： elevator up, elevator down