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Quaerereverum Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Fire escape

Hello,

How did you get on my fire escape? Here does fire escape mean my address?

Thank you in advance.
  

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Hi, No. A fire escape is basically a set of outside stairs on a building, to be used to exit in case of fire. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, No.
  • A fire escape is basically a set of outside stairs on a building, to be used to exit in case of fire.
  • Clive
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Hi,

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A fire escape is basically a set of outside stairs on a building, to be used to exit in case of fire.

Clive
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Marni: What are you doing here? How did you get on my fire escape?

Could you ple
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Hi,

get on a fire escape

Here, the idea is roughly 'gain access to'.

eg There were so many people that it was hard to get on the bus.

Clive
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Sometimes a fire escape is designed so you can only get onto it from inside the building, like this:
Sometimes there is a ladder that you can lower to the ground from the fire escape (or close enough that you could jump
down), but it doesn't go all the way to the ground (to prevent thieves from using it to enter the building.) If you looked out your window and saw someone on your fire e
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Thank you very much for explanation. Emotion: rose Actually , I've seen fire escapes but I couldn't understand why they are so short. So, they a
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