upheaval

单词upheaval

基本解释

n.: 动荡；剧变；激变；动乱
网络: 隆起；大变动；举起

权威解释

• 剧变；激变；动乱；动荡:

  a big change that causes a lot of confusion, worry and problems

英汉解释

• 鼓起,举起,抬起;【地质学;地理学】隆起

• 上升

• 打乱

• 胀起;鼓起

• 骚扰,动乱;激变,剧变

• 动荡,大动乱

词性分析

• 复数：upheavals

单词搭配

• adj.+n.:

  social upheaval,political upheaval,great upheaval,tremendous upheaval

• v.+n.:

  cause upheaval

同义词

n.disturbanceturmoildisorderconfusioncataclysm

反义词

n.peace

例句

• This would be an astonishing upheaval for what was one of Europe"s hottest firms.

  对于一家欧洲最顶尖的公司来讲，这将是一项令人吃惊的变革。

• For more than a decade, I pondered the question of why the 20th century was characterized by so much brutal upheaval.

  有十几年了，我一直在思考为什么20世纪会被描述成如此的残酷和动荡。

• But Thomson"s directors and shareholders seem to have doubts about all this upheaval.

  但汤姆逊的董事和股东看起来对这一猛烈变化仍然怀有疑虑。

• I could also be given a death blow as a result of a break down in services and economic networking due to a severe upheaval.

  也有可能，金融会因为一场强烈地震所引发的服务业和经济互联网的衰退而遭受致命一击。

• She said students and the market were anxious for clarity after a year of upheaval.

  她说，学生们和市场经过数年的无序膨胀后，都急切地盼望着规范化。

• I was a student in the "60s, a time of social upheaval and questioning, and on a personal level, an awakening sense of idealism.

  我当时是60年代的一个学生，那是动荡和充满质疑的年代，而且在个人层面，理想主义正被唤醒。

• You can apply your own weightings to each variable to see which country may be the next to experience political upheaval.

  读者可以为每个变量赋予自己的权重，看一下哪个国家可能会是下一个发生政治剧变的国家。

• Early in the week, he said the fundamentals of the economy were sound, despite the current upheaval.

  本周稍早时候，他说尽管当前局势动荡，但美国的经济基础是健全的。

• Yet the transition towards eventual privatisation must be carefully handled if it is not to provoke new injustices and social upheaval.

  然而，如果要避免引发新的不公正现象乃至社会动荡，就必须审慎把握以私有化为最终目标的过渡。

• asks one university student. With nerves jangled from years of upheaval, nicotine is often the first and only comfort.

  事实上，在这些年的动荡不安中，尼古丁一直是人们首选的也是唯一的精神慰藉。