upend

单词upend

基本解释

v.: 翻倒；倒放；使颠倒
网络: 倾倒；竖立；倒置

权威解释

• 翻倒；倒放；使颠倒:

  to turn sb/sth upside down

英汉解释

• 倾倒

• 翻转

• 打倒

• 倒放

• 竖立

• (使)颠倒,(使)倒竖,倒置,倒转

词性分析

• 过去分词：upended

• 现在分词：upending

• 第三人称单数：upends

同义词

v.turn overtip uptip overupsettopple

反义词

v.right

例句

• Even the world"s second-largest exporter might have to twist a few arms to upend the dollar"s dominance in global trade.

  便是世界第二大出口国可能也必须花点儿力气才能颠覆美元在全球贸易中的霸主地位。

• 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。

• There will be no reason for the rates between them to move sharply, something that would potentially upend investors.

  它们相互之间的汇率将没有理由出现可能让投资者无所适从的急涨急跌。

• 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。

• 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。

• We"ll have to upend the sofa to get it through the door.

  我们得把沙发倒过来才能抬过这门。

• He went on to upend the music business, the phone handset industry and consumer computers again, with the 2010 launch of the iPad tablet.

  接着他在2010年推出了iPad平板电脑，让音乐业务、手机行业和消费者电脑再次发生了天翻地覆的变化。

• Misused surveillance photos upend security, and there are no laws to help, Duan Yan and Wang Yan report.

  滥用监控图像，颠覆公共安全，没有法律援助，段研、王艳报道。

• For Ray, the truth is revelatory , a Pandora"s Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.

  对雷来说，真理是具有启示性的，这个潘朵拉盒子的威胁不但能够颠覆蒂尔尼的遗产，而且能够颠覆整个纽约警察局。

• 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准备花费巨大，会颠覆任何一个商业模型。