Uplift
[ʌp'lɪft] or ['ʌplɪft]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts.
(verb.) lift up or elevate.
(verb.) lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces; 'the earth's movement uplifted this part of town'.
校對:莱利亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.
(n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.
安塞姆校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to lift up or raise aloft.—n. a raising or upheaval of strata.
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例句/造句/用法:
- In a strange uplift of elation she saw him, the being never to be revealed, awful in its potency, mystic and real. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- All through the stress of the struggle with him, she had been conscious of something faintly maternal in her efforts to guide and uplift him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- They stand clothed in white, girdled with golden girdles; they uplift vials, brimming with the wrath of God. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This was the moment when the death was uplifted, and there was no escape. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Chancing for an instant to look down, his glance rested on an uplifted face, flushed, smiling, happy, shaded with silky curls, lit with fine eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He laid his hand on the child's uplifted head. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- One feels so UPLIFTED, so UNBOUNDED . 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It matters little why or wherefore I am affected, no power can avert the stroke, and the shadow of Fate's uplifted hand already darkens me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Barraclough uplifted the palms of his hands and the whites of his eyes, evincing in the gesture a mere burlesque of hypocrisy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
校對:罗杰