英语释义

• set, turn, or stand on end;

  "upend the box and empty the contents"

• become turned or set on end;

  "the airplanes upended"

片语

to upend倒放

bottom up颠倒；倒置

reverse逆向；相反；背面；倒档；失败；（美橄）横式传球；（翻开书的）左手页

keep upend遵守承诺

to turn upside downto upend倒放

upend deformation顶张变形

upend forging[机]

英汉例句

• last week「s news generated headlines like: microbes upend decades of science, ... microbes suggest extraterrestrial life possible, ... lake bacteria seen as model for life in space.

  上周的一些新闻头条：《微生物颠覆建立了数十年的科学》，《微生物使天外来客成为可能》，《湖泊细菌将是太空生命的范本》。

• meanwhile, two different sorts of disruptive innovations promise to upend america’s health-care system, a $2.4 trillion colossus that is ripe for change.

  与此同时，两种截然不同的混乱性改革措施将铁定颠倒美国的保健体系——2.4万亿美元的硕果正等着变革去采摘。

• this threatens to upend the traditional hierarchy of the centre-left parties, which gerhard schr?der, a former spd chancellor, likened to that of 「cook and waiter.

  这就威胁并弄混中央左翼政府传统的阶级划分，而前社会民主党党首杰哈德施拉德将这样的情形比作“厨师和侍者」的关系。

• yet the organisation he founded, and for which his knighthood is a gong of respect, has probably done more than any single body to upend the traditions of misery and poverty in bangladesh.

  然而，他创建的这个组织——他被授予爵士头衔也是对这个组织的一种敬意——却颠覆了传统，改变了孟加拉一直以来的贫穷和困苦，而且在这方面作出的贡献可能比任何一个单一团体都要多。

• for 40 years, karten and colleagues have worked to upend this thinking.

  40年来，卡特和他的同事都在试图推翻这种认识。

• so what happened in 1940, decades before the large-scale influx of women into the workplace, to upend the multigenerational tradition?

  那么，在妇女大规模地开始工作的十年前——1940年，到底发生了什么来颠覆「多代」的传统？

• how often does a detective story upend history?

  经常让一本侦探小说来颠覆一下历史怎么样？

• he hopes his second, growing fruit and vegetables, will help upend a farming system that costs japanese taxpayers $45 billion a year.

  他希望他的下一份职业——种水果、蔬菜——能够使日本的农业发生翻天覆地的变化。 目前日本的农业每年耗费纳税人达450亿美元。

• it had taken the better part of a decade , but reed hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry.

  经过了将近十年的时间，里德·黑斯廷斯终于準备推出了他认为会颠倒娱乐业的设备。

• wexner, 73, is an unlikely candidate to upend the american underwear industry.

  今年73岁的瓦克斯纳看起来不像是个颠覆美国内衣业的人。

• economists began to doubt the possibility of a financial crisis so severe it would upend the economy.

  经济学家开始怀疑爆发撼动经济的严重金融危机的可能性。

• the extra cost of paying for private security and backup generators can upend a business model.

  为了保障个人安全的措施和后备发电机的準备花费巨大，会颠覆任何一个商业模型。

• publishers are feeling the heat, with hardcover sales weak and the rise of e-books promising to upend their business models.

  书商可以感觉到有热浪袭来，感到实体书销售市场的疲软和电子书市场的兴起以及它们决心改变商业模式的决心。

• to what extent it is capable of leveraging these powers to upend western hegemony of technology is a truly fascinating question.

  中国会在什么程度上利用这些力量来推翻西方的技术霸权，这确实是一个引人遐思的问题。

• and when they are, they are likely to upend humanity」s understanding of itself.

  当这一发现付诸实际时，这将很可能是人类对神经科学认知的一次颠覆。

• and that, he and others say, could upend our notions of culpability, crime and punishment.

  而且，他和其他人都说，这场革命能够颠覆传统的罪责，犯罪和惩罚的概念。

• but perhaps no animal has done more to upend conventional notions than alex, an african gray parrot.

  但是，或许没有其它动物比alex，一只非洲灰鹦鹉，更加颠覆了传统观念。

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