upheaval是什么意思_upheaval怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally);"the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"

a violent disturbance;"the convulsions of the stock market"

(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

disturbance usually in protest

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中英词源

upheaval 剧变，动乱

up, 向上，heave,举起。引申词义剧变，动乱。

upheaval (n.): 1834 in reference to convulsions in society; 1836 in geology, from verb upheave (c. 1300, from up (adv.) + heave (v.)) + -al (2). Similarly formed verbs are Old Frisian upheva, Old High German ufhevan, German aufheben.

词态变化

复数 upheavals;

权威造句

1. It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ.: 它面临第二次世界大战以来最大的社会动乱.

2. And here lie the seeds of the whole subsequent upheaval.: 这就包含着随之而来的全部变革的萌芽.

3. Having a baby will mean the greatest upheaval in your life.: 有了孩子意味着你的生活要发生重大的变化。

4. Wherever there is political upheaval, invariably there are refugees.: 哪里有政治动乱，哪里就一定有难民。

5. Her fears had always been on the alert for an upheaval.: 她日夜提心吊胆,严防突变.

近反义词

secular upheaval 长期缓升

frost upheaval 冻胀,冰冻隆起...

campus upheaval 大学学潮

economic upheaval 经济震荡

currency upheaval 货币动荡

相似短语

frost upheaval 冻胀，冰冻隆起

upheaval island 上升岛

secular upheaval 长期缓升

economic upheaval 经济震荡

land upheaval 地面隆起

currency upheaval 货币动荡

campus upheaval 大学学潮

dome like upheaval 穹状隆起

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