Upper
['ʌpə] or ['ʌpɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot; 'Uppers come in many styles'.
(adj.) higher in place or position; 'the upper bunk'; 'in the upper center of the picture'; 'the upper stories' .
(adj.) superior in rank or accomplishment; 'the upper half of the class' .
(adj.) the topmost one of two .
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解釋/意思:
(comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.
(n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
錄入:勒达
解釋/意思:
adj. (comp. of up) farther up: higher in position dignity &c.: superior:—superl. Up′permost Up′most.—ns. Up′per the part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt; Up′perhand superiority: advantage.—adj. Up′permost highest in place rank &c.: first to come into the mind.—adv. in the highest place first.—n. Up′per-stō′ry a story above the ground-floor: the brain.—n.pl. Up′per-ten the wealthier or leading class in a community.—adj. Up′pish assuming pretentious snobbish.—adv. Up′pishly.—n. Up′pishness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- In the sights were parallel slits, right, left, upper, lower. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He sat down, a little disconcerted by my presence, I thought, and without looking at me, drew his heavy sunburnt hand across and across his upper lip. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He covered with his hand the upper part of his face, but did not conceal his mouth, where I saw hovering an expression I liked. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Miss Lucas perceived him from an upper window as he walked towards the house, and instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- They come to a building in the yard with an office on an upper floor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Near this stand-pipe in the upper story is placed a water supply tank. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She found in an upper-class official, Calonne, her ideal minister of finance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He could hear laughter in the upper rooms. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The sheets of rubber from which the uppers and soles are cut are at this stage of the work plastic and very sticky. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Cheap shoes could only be made by roughly fastening the soles to the uppers by wooden pegs, whose row of projecting points within has made many a man and boy do unnecessary penance. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The uppers are cut by hand from the engraved sheets, while metal patterns are used on the plain stock. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- These and other machines complete the soles and heels, which are finally sent to the making or bottoming room, where the completed shoe uppers await them. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In 1809, David Mead Randolph of England patented machinery for riveting soles and heels to the uppers instead of sewing them together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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