Upwards
['ʌpwɚdz]
解释:
(adv.) In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.
(adv.) In the upper parts; above.
(adv.) Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
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例句:
- Looking upwards, a furze-cutter would have been inclined to continue work; looking down, he would have decided to finish his faggot and go home. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Of this edition, up to the present period (1858), the astonishing number of TWELVE MILLIONS OF SHEETS have been issued, the weight of which amounts to upwards of 335 tons! 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl--she looked thirteen or upwards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- They were used upwards of two hundred years before locomotive engines were known, or before the steam engine itself was invented. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The small timber room glowed with the dawn, that came upwards from the low window. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The quantity of coals requisite for the production of the gas manufactured annually in London is upwards of 600,000 tons. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- No one can fail to see that the contemplation of the heavens draws the soul upwards. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- It has 7,148 marble statues, and will have upwards of three thousand more when it is finished. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- They stayed there upwards of sixteen. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And what training will draw the soul upwards? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The trading stock of the South Sea company at one time amounted to upwards of thirty-three millions eight hundred thousand pounds. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The simple kind of Centrifugal Pump applied in that chimerical scheme was known upwards of one hundred years ago. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- That at that rate they have conveyed upwards fourteen passengers. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- I know nothing more of him than his name and race; but from a boy upwards I have always attached a personality to Saph. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- A house with twenty windows and upwards to pay eight shillings. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It is so arranged as to be always going, traveling upwards or downwards, and returning out of sight below. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He could make a boat out of anything, from a skewer upwards. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I remember, though, she told me once she had tutored her thoughts to tend upwards to heaven. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He did not turn me upside down this time to get at what I had, but left me right side upwards while I opened the bundle and emptied my pockets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- This is the state of things, and the only state of things, she has seen from childhood upwards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- For every one, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, this is so curious, so incomprehensible. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- In the same islands, they knit worsted stockings to the value of a guinea a pair and upwards. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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