upper基本信息
读法：英 ["ʌpə] 美 ["ʌpɚ]
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英英释义
Noun:
"in the upper center of the picture"
"the upper stories"
中英词源
upper 上面的，上层的
来自up的比较级。
- upper (adj.)
- c. 1300, originally comparative of up (adj.). Similar formation in Middle Dutch upper, Dutch opper, Low German upper, Norwegian yppare. Upper hand "advantage" is late 15c., perhaps from wrestling (get the over-hand in the same sense is from early 14c.). Upperclassman is recorded from 1871.
Upper crust is attested from mid-15c. in reference to the top crust of a loaf of bread, 1836 in reference to society. Upper middle class (adj.) is recorded from 1835. Upper ten thousand (1844) was common mid-19c. for "wealthier and more aristocratic part of a large community;" hence uppertendom. - upper (n.)
- "part of a shoe above the sole," 1789, from upper (adj.). Sense of "stimulant drug" is from 1968, agent noun from up (v.).
词态变化
复数 uppers;
权威造句
- 1. A cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract.
- 感冒是上呼吸道的感染。
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- 2. Many of the British upper classes are no longer very rich.
- 英国的上流社会许多人已不再富得流油。
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- 3. They have purged thousands from the upper levels of the civil service.
- 他们从上层文职部门清除了上千名公务员。
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- 4. He curled his upper lip in a show of scepticism.
- 他撇嘴表示怀疑。
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- 5. I then went up to Lancaster University and got an upper second.
- 后来，我考上了兰开斯特大学，获得了二级甲等学位。
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