0 a piece of equipment used for climbing up and down, that consists of two vertical bars or pieces of rope joined to each other by a set of horizontal steps -- 梯子
1 a series of increasingly important jobs or stages in a particular type of work or process -- （職位晉升的）階梯；（發展的）階段
2 a long, vertical hole in a pair of tights or a stocking -- （緊身褲襪或長筒襪的）抽絲，滑絲
3 (in particular sports) a system in which all the players who play regularly are given a position in a list and can improve their position by beating other players in that list -- （某項體育比賽採用的）階梯晉級賽
a squash ladder 壁球階梯晉級賽
4 If a pair of tights or a stocking ladders or if you ladder it, a long hole appears in it. -- （緊身衣、襪子）抽絲；被刮破
Further down the line, on the lowest rung of the ladder, we meet with names which seem to have been drawn out of a hat.
We see wood that has been made into a ladder rather than a ladder that has been made out of wood.
Networks of charge-charge interactions in proteins measured by charge ladders and capillary electrophoresis.
The energy ladder model envisions a three-stage fuel switching process.
The library is editable by the user, and each template can contain both low-level control behaviour (written in ladder diagram) and higher-level intelligent behaviour.
The major achievement of the energy ladder model in its simplest form is the ability to capture the strong income dependency of fuel choices.
The latter they interpreted as a ladder for stepping on rather than a ladder with steps.
You're on the ladder, being handed on from one master to the next.
