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up HIGHERQpadv [not gradable]towards a higher position; towards a higher value, number or level向较高位置，向较高处，向较高的价值、数字或水平Pick your clothes up and put them away.拿起你的衣服, 把它们收起来。Put those books up on the top shelf.把那些书放在书架最高层。They flew up through the clouds into sunshine above.他们向上飞越云层, 到了其上的阳光层。A gravel road leads through the jungle and up into the Andes.一条砾石公路穿越丛林直接向上进入安第斯山。Above the dust we could see a rocket climbing up into a blue sky.在烟尘的上方我们可以看到一枚向蔚蓝天空高飞的火箭。Pushing the number of unit sales up every quarter can't be continued indefinitely.每个季度都增加单位销售数字的状况不可能无限期地继续下去。(fig.) He spent the afternoon digging carrots up (= out of the ground).他下午在田里挖胡萝卜。If a person or thing moves up and down, they move, usually repeatedly, higher and then lower.上上下下，一上一下地，起伏地，来来回回Our daughter started jumping up and down with rage when she heard she couldn't go.当听说她不能去时, 我们的女儿非常生气，不停地跳脚。The water was up to/had come up to the level of the windows.水已经涨到窗户高了。You can use up to to say that something is less than or equal to but not more than a stated value, number or level.(价值数字水平等)一直到，达到，接近于，不多于，多达，可与…相比较，及得上Research suggests that up to half of those who were prescribed the drug have suffered side effects.研究表明多达半数服了这种药品的人出现副作用。Up to two hundred people were on board the ship.接近于两百人乘上了这艘轮船。We can teach dancers up to intermediate level here.在这儿我们可以教跳舞者达到中级水平。 [UP TO]Up to (also Up until, Up till) also means until.直到Up to yesterday, we had no idea where the child was.直到昨天, 我们还不知道孩子在哪里。It's an old house but it has all of the up-to-date (= modern) conveniences you could want.这是一座旧房屋, 但它有你所想要的所有现代化设备。[UPDATE]Great trouble is taken to keep our database up-to-date (= corrected with the most recent information).我们尽很大努力来使我们的数据库跟上形势。 [UPDATE]Now we're going to listen to our reporter in Moscow for up-to-the-minute (= containing the latest information) news on the situation there.现在我们听一下我们在莫斯科的记者现场发来的关于那里局势的最新消息。If a person or a thing is up to their ears/eyeballs/eyes/neck in something, it is causing them a lot of problems.深深卷入，深陷，非常忙，到极点，完全;The business has been up to its eyes in problems ever since their managing director resigned.自从他们的总裁辞职后, 这个公司就深深陷入了问题堆里。(infml dated) The phrase up (with) is shouted or written on notices to show support:(喊出或写在标语上表示支持的)支持，要求.Up with freedom, down with repression!支持自由, 反对镇压！(esp. Br) If a door is an up-and-over type, it opens by being lifted and it then slides into a horizontal position as it rises higher.(房门等抬高后横下的)上提式开启的 "Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down" (believed to have been said by Wilson Mizner, 1876--1933) “在你向上高升的途中对人们好点, 因为在你退下时你还会遇见他们”(据信威尔逊·梅孜纳曾说过)。☆ DOWN
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