“電梯故障”英語怎么說

　　摘要：在杭州，四天之內在同一個小區連續發生兩起電梯故障，這引發了居民們的擔憂。你知道怎么用英語表達嗎?

　　Two elevator malfunctions in the same residential community in Hangzhou within four days have residents worried.

　　An 8-month-old girl was flung out after her mother fell over as the elevator they were using plunged at the fifth floor and got stuck at the third on Saturday in Oasis Garden, a residential community in Hangzhou.

　　Just four days earlier, emergency physicians who had come to help a 70-year-old woman were stuck in an elevator in the same community. The doctors walked to the 22nd floor, where they found the woman, who by that time had no heart beat.

　　在杭州，四天之內在同一個小區連續發生兩起電梯故障，這引發了居民們的擔憂。

　　周六，在杭州的綠洲花園小區里上演了驚險一幕。由于電梯突然發生“自由落體”，八個月的女嬰突然從其母親懷里跌出。所幸女嬰穿著較厚，沒有外傷。

　　僅僅四天前，該小區一名七旬老人突發疾病，然而當急救車趕來時，醫務人員卻發現小區消防通道被堵，同時樓內兩部電梯雙雙故障，無奈徒步跑上22樓到達老人家中。由于耽誤時間過長老人搶救無效死亡。

　　【講解】：

　　"elevator malfunction"就是電梯故障的意思。elevator就是電梯的意思，要注意和escalator(自動扶梯)加以區分。malfunction作名詞時是故障，失靈的意思。它也可以作為動詞來使用。其反義詞就是function。是mal-這個前綴多表示“壞、惡”的意思，例如：maltreat(虐待)、malnutrition(營養不良)、maladroit(笨拙的)等。