Upward
['ʌpwəd] or ['ʌpwɚd]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) directed up; 'the cards were face upward'; 'an upward stroke of the pen' .
伊万杰琳校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) Alt. of Upwards
(a.) Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
(n.) The upper part; the top.
手打:玛里琳
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Ascending, uphill.
卡蜜拉整理
解釋/意思:
adj. directed up or to a higher place.—advs. Up′ward Up′wardly Up′wards toward a higher direction; Up′ways upward.—Upward of more than about.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It cannot have been upward of three hundred and seventy or eighty days. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Upward of three thousand such machines were then at work throughout the world; and one hundred and fifty million pairs of boots were then being made annually thereon. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Recently one of the writers had occasion to present to him a long typewritten document of upward of thirty pages for his approval. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Then I was compelled to change my plans and go upward in the air where real estate was cheap. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- That's a pity, now, Josh, said Raffles, affecting to scratch his head and wrinkle his brows upward as if he were nonplussed. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- As his arms and legs had been extended stiffly upward as he came to earth upon his back the attitude of death was anything but impressive. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Cassy drew back; and, clasping her hands, looked upward, and said, O, great Almighty God! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And yet most of us accept as a matter of course the stream which gushes from our faucet, or give no thought to the ingenuity which devised a means of forcing water upward through pipes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- These are again the words of Jarvis Lorry, as he clasps his hands, and looks upward. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The Gould pool had acquired control of $10,000,000 in gold, and drove the price upward rapidly from 144 toward their goal of 200. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He thought, 'But that is very strong,' as he followed the momentary upward glance of her eyes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- As the arm lifts upward, the pin moves along the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus causing it to cant and shift the type-wheels to the right or left, as desired. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The air warmed by the stove is forced upward by cold air which enters from outside. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Hence, even when the plunger is moving upward, water is forced through the pipe because of the pressure of the compressed air. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The earliest way to get upward from the ground was that adopted by climbing animals in clambering up tree trunks, and by man himself in shinning up trees by aid of his arms and legs. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Instantly he elevated the planes of his machine, and his aeroplane obeyed his touch, shot upward, and flew over the Antoinette. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Licensees under Edison patents in this country alone produce upward of 60,000,000 feet of films annually, containing more than a billion and a half separate photographs. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In fact, the good little fellow had become alarmingly limp, and his senses seemed to be rapidly escaping, from the knees upward. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Until I die, my dearest sister, I shall see you always before me, pointing upward! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Langley had adopted wings that slanted upward from the point at which they joined, copying the wings of a soaring buzzard. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In modern times the art of building has had such an upward trend that edifices looming far into the air, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He lay on his back, with his teeth set, his right hand clenched on his breast, and his glaring eyes looking straight upward. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The upward struggle of the English democracy to education, to political recognition, had no Irish counterpart. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Holy men have bidden penitents like you to hasten their path upward by penance, self-denial, and difficult good works. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Upon it there are a great many small teeth, wide set in a row, answering to the height of the ears of corn (wheat), and turned upward at the ends. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- For a long time he gazed upward at it, and then in an attempt to get nearer to it he rested his knee upon a wooden bracket on the wall. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- To give the ship an upward or a downward movement the plane on which the ship rests was provided with a weight adapted to slip back and forth on a cable underneath the balloon shell. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- So low she was crouching now that she seemed flattened to the earth except for the upward bend of the glossy back as it gathered for the spring. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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