問：英文歌"White
Horse"有You'll... lead her up the stairwell（你會帶她走上樓梯）這一句。Stairwell和stairs、staircase、stairway等有什麼分別？要說「你會抱着她走上樓梯」英文怎麼說？
答：Staircase和stairway同義，指整條樓梯，包括扶手欄杆；stairwell直譯是「樓梯井」，指整條樓梯所佔的井形空間；a stair是「一級樓梯」，stairs則是其複數形式。「帶她走上樓梯」一般會說to lead her up the stairs，說to lead her up the staircase / stairway也可以，to
lead her up the stairwell則最為少說。歌詞用stairwell，只是因為stairwell和上一句最後一字tale尾音較為諧協。
至於「你會抱着她走上樓梯」，英文可以說You will carry her in your arms up the stairs，其中in
your arms三字不用也可以。
問：As
time went by we saw less and less of each other（日子漸漸過去，我們越來越少見面）這一句，less
and less之後為什麼用of？句子為什麼不寫作As
time went by we saw each other less and less？
答：We
saw less and less of each other的less是名詞，所以其後可以用of，謹再舉一例：Less of the wine was left than I had expected（剩下的酒，比我預期的少）。
We
saw each other less and less同樣是正確說法，但less是副詞（adverb），修飾動詞saw，謹再舉一例：You
should drink less（你應少喝點酒）。
