upon
美 [??pɑn]
英 [??p?n] 
- prep.強調數目或數量大
- 網絡在…之上;在…上;在……上面
英漢雙解
1. | (強調數目或數量大)used to emphasize that there is a large number or amount of sth |
| mile upon mile of dusty road 綿延數英里塵土飛揚的道路 |
| thousands upon thousands of letters 成千上萬封信件 |
英漢解釋
prep. | 1. upon 語氣較強,與動詞連用或在句末,多用 upon, 如 2. 在某些習語中,on 與 upon 不能互換,如 |
na. | |
英英解釋
例句
and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore, or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.
我尋思著,假如我貿然靠近的話,不是被大浪拍死在嶙峋的巖石上就是在攀登懸崖峭壁時耗盡精力。
Then Tess went up to her mother, put her face upon Joan's neck, and told.
于是苔絲走到她的母親面前,把臉伏在瓊的脖子上,一五一十地對母親說了。
The children would pull the bear's hair and put their feet upon his back and roll him over.
孩子們常拔熊的毛玩,或是把她們的腳放在它的背上,把它滾來滾去。
After he has talked most happily and enthusiastically-as he always did -upon the importance of this point, I asked what I should do next.
在他很高興熱情的-像平常一樣-講了這一點的重要性后,我問我下一步要做什么。
"Once upon a time, there was an ambitious young man who didn't read The Economist. The End, " read one particularly audacious ad from 2004.
2004年一則特別大膽創新的廣告這么說到:“從前,有一個很有抱負的年輕人,他不看《經濟學人》,完了。”
She half enclosed me with her arms, She press'd me with a meek embrace; And bending back her head, look'd up, And gazed upon my face.
她的兩臂松松地摟住我,羞答答地把我抱在胸前;她仰起了頭,抬起了眼睛久久地凝視我的臉。
But Ephraim has bitterly provoked him to anger; his Lord will leave upon him the guilt of his bloodshed and will repay him for his contempt.
以法蓮大大惹動主怒,所以他流血的罪必歸在他身上。主必將那因以法蓮所受的羞辱歸還他。
True, I was ready to share it with him, but it made me rage to see him count upon my readiness.
的確,我準備和他共同享用,但是,看到他已經指望著我的這種意愿,不由我不憤怒。
After seeing you I have decided once for all that I am not going to look upon any other girl for love.
在遇見你之后我決定再也不去尋找任何其他的女子的愛。
Upon her return, she found that her lover Dumuzi had not been mourning and so she sentenced him to the underworld.
她返回的時候,發現她的愛人杜穆茲并沒有因此而悲慟,因此她宣判他到冥界中。
She told me that she would often spend a whole morning working upon a single page.
她對我說,她往往要花整整一個上午來修改一頁稿子。
All the young mice came out to admire such a large mouse, at which point the cat tried to leap upon them.
所有的年輕老鼠出來欣賞這么大的老鼠,這時的貓試圖對他們的飛躍。
They used to go so far in that school to design chairs that people collect their old chairs as art pieces, never to be sat upon!
他們以前居然在這所學校設計的座椅,人們收集他們的舊椅子作為藝術作品,從來沒有被坐在后!
In a given patient the choice of antihistaminic drug depends upon trial and error and a decision whether sedation is desired or not.
在特定的病人中,選用何種抗組胺藥物,要用視差法,并需要取決于是否需要鎮靜療法。
ministrations of the servants trying to lay her upon a crude.
嘗試在天然之上與她性交的仆人職務。
You are about to embark upon the last episode that will see an end to duality, and all will eventually change from what you know it as now.
你們即將開始最后一段將看見一個二元性終結的情節,并且一切最終將改變你們現在所認識的它的樣子。
I could not avoid communicating to her something of what lay hardest upon my mind and particularly the narrowness of my circumstance.
我免不了告訴她一些壓在我心頭上的最沉重的事情,尤其是我財力拮據的情況。
In the meantime, she had emptied their joint bank accounts and he had no place to stay upon his return.
同時,她將他們的共同銀行賬戶弄空,他回去之后也沒地方可呆。
Upon reading the above title, you may find the statement to be a bit of an oxymoron.
從上面的題目看,你會覺得這樣的陳述是矛盾的。
He tried to coax me out of bed, with the idea of locking me up in the kitchen upon the arrival of his visitors.
他想哄我起床,想等參觀畫展的人一來便把我鎖進廚房里。
Only when he came to the word tarnish, he looked upon his lace like one a little mortified.
只是當他讀到“失去光澤”這幾個字的時候,他望望自己的花邊,似乎感到了一點恥辱。
He manifested the greatest eagerness to be upon deck to watch for sledge which had before appear.
他顯得迫不及待地想上甲板去,守候在那架曾露過面的雪橇。
Yet his wife trembled and a vague but heavy fear was upon her.
而他的妻子還是發抖,有一種模糊而沉重的恐懼壓在她身上。
He said a thousand kind things to me upon the subject of my making such a proposal to him.
我向他提出這么個建議以后,他對我說了許多溫柔的話。
She went, with a heavy, hardened kind if sorrow upon her, into the house and into her mother's room.
懷著沉重、冷酷的愁思,她走進這座房子,到她母親的住屋里來。
She looked at him, and the shadow of a smile played upon her this pale lips.
她看著他,蒼白的薄嘴唇上露出一絲笑意。
She laid her white hand upon his head, and looked him fondly in the eyes.
她把雪白的手放在他頭上,深情地注視著他的眼睛。
He made several efforts to creep out of his scrape, but the old man's eye was upon him and he made blunder after blunder.
他幾次設法要想逃出窘境,可是那老人的眼睛老盯住他,于是他一次又一次地露了馬腳。
The lawyer laid down the dead man in his blood upon the road, and got to his own feet with a kind of stagger.
律師把死人放在地上,讓他躺在血泊里,自己才搖搖晃晃地站起來。
This pleasant rivalry put us at once upon friendly terms, and I sat up and drank punch with him.
這種愉快的競賽使我們馬上情投意合,坐在一起,共飲潘契酒。
He looks out of the windows from which she looked out, not long ago, upon the weather that bored her to death.
他望著窗外,而不久以前,夫人也在這里望著窗外那使她煩得要死的天氣。
This was but a trifle compared with the overwhelming air forces about to be hurled upon the island.
這和行將投入該島的具有壓倒之勢的空軍相比,不過是個零頭而已。
He had a hearty fit of sneezing, and looked around upon me with a rather silly smile.
他連打了一陣痛痛快快的噴嚏,才轉過頭來,對著我,堆起一種傻笑。
Would not his love, his tender care, and the advantages he could bestow upon her make her forget the question of age?
他的愛,他的一份真情,他可以給她的一切好處,難道不能使她忘掉年齡的問題嗎?
One fellow as he went by actually clapped his hand upon the sunny face of the rock on which we lay.
有一個家伙走過我們的旁邊,用手在我們躺著的那塊巖石的向陽面摸了一下。
I shall be happy to give you an opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two.
我將愉快地在一兩天內把我關于這件事的意見告訴你。
If it had been discovered that part of goods were embezzled, he could have made no challenge upon me for it.
即使他發現一部分的貨被我盜走了,他也無法找我理論。
"How, " said the Rector; "So young, and already unfortunate enough to have doubts upon the duties of religion! "
“怎么!”教區長說,“這么年輕,不幸居然懷疑起宗教的職能來了。”
There was no sign at this moment of any hostile action or intent upon the part of Japan.
在些期間,沒有任何跡象表明日本方面有什么敵對行動和企圖。
They were of good flesh and flavour, and when broiled upon the coals, lacked only a little salt to be delicious.
味很鮮美,拿來放在木炭上焙炙,就是缺少一點鹽,否則真可以和山珍海味媲美了。
My son is always unwilling to practise upon the piano as regularly as he should have done.
我兒子總是不愿意按規定應該做的那樣來練鋼琴。
He threw his entire attention upon his work, now, as if determined not to be put down by the mirth.
于是他集中全副精力來干這樁事情,似乎是下了決心,不因大家的嬉笑而泄氣。
All this that came and went in the twinkling of an eye was branded forever upon my heart.
所有這些都是在一眨眼的瞬間里發生和消逝了的,這一切將永遠銘刻在我的心上。
Even how we were on the rock he said nothing, nor so much as relaxed the frowning look upon his face.
甚至登上了這塊巖頭,他照舊閉緊了嘴,連愁眉不展的臉色也沒有消除。
Again, the deathless grief that never slept leaped out of the shadows like a wolf, and fastened upon his shoulders.
那份從不平息的、綿綿不絕的哀愁,象一只狼似的,又從黑暗里猛跳起來,撲上他的肩頭。
She rounded upon him in the office, charging him with telling lies about her.
她在辦公室里對他大發雷霆,指責他造她的謠。
Here I was doing dirty work for three men that I looked down upon, and one of whom, at least, should have hung upon a gallows.
在這兒,我在替三個我所瞧不起的人干著骯臟的雜務,而其中至少有一個是應該吊在絞刑架上的。
It seemed understood that I was to fly with him, and they were all busy upon our equipment.
看到他們都急急忙忙替我們準備行裝,仿佛知道我是跟他一起逃跑似的。
Now he was mercifully snatched out of the gulf by a convincing work upon his mind, but I was left as if I was forsaken of God's grace.
現在他是被直摯的感觸慈悲地從深坑中救出,但是我卻剩下來,好象被神的慈悲所棄了。
The finger marks had deepened underneath her eyes, a languor came upon her; it made her the more sweet and youthful.
她眼睛下面的指印顯得更深了,她有點神思恍惚的樣子;這就使她顯得越發嬌媚,越發年輕。
With a tearing crash, tons of water fell upon the deck, as though the ship passed under a waterfall.
隨著一聲撕裂的轟隆聲,大量的水傾斜到甲板上,猶如船從瀑布下經過。
Some of this rotational energy also pours to the aurora of earth upon a recurring basis from all points upon the surface of the earth.
某部分此類能量也傾瀉到地球的極光中,基于重現在地球表面的每點上出現。
The Hawaiian Ancestors and all ancestors are here for you to call upon.
夏威夷祖先以及所有祖先,都在這里等候你的召喚。
How much weight should I place on the code when the goal is to have them try a new practice and reflect upon it?
當目標是使他們嘗試一個新的實踐并引發對它的思考時,放在代碼上的份量應是多少呢?
It's been a great journey as a family, and I'm glad we've embarked upon it.
對于一個家庭而言,這是一段很美好的時光,我很高興我們開始了這段旅程。
You know Of his untimely squeeze upon the poor; Of how our nation's records then were lost.
大家知道他不合時宜的壓榨窮人;大家知道我們國家如何失去榮耀。
And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
他又與眾弟兄親嘴,抱著他們哭,隨后他弟兄就和他說話。
As the sun began to steal in upon the boys, drowsiness came over them, and they went out on the sandbar and lay down to sleep.
62太陽漸漸升起來,照在孩子們的身上,他們感到困倦難耐,就從林子里走出來,到沙灘上躺下來睡覺。
A hundred times she had been upon the point of telling her daughter Elizabeth Jane the true story of her life.
有無數次她的話已經到了嘴邊,要把她一生的真實事跡,講給她的女兒伊麗莎白·簡聽。
Hale's extended harangues upon the subjects of wealth and position taught her to distinguish between degrees of wealth.
海爾太太關于財富和地位的長篇宏論教會了她區分財富的等級。
with a head so big and a neck so short, it looks like he has had his head directly upon his shoulders.
他腦袋那么大,脖子那么短,結果頭簡直就象是架在肩膀上。
Its only caution was that this should be "upon their request" .
只提醒說,幫助需要“根據他們的要求。”
There was no feebleness of step, as at other times; his frame was not bent; nor did his hand rest ominously upon his heart.
他的步履不象平時那樣虛弱,他的軀干不再彎曲,他的手也沒有病態地捂在心口。
Now after these things his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, Lie with me.
這事以后,約瑟主人的妻子以目送情給約瑟,說,你與我同寢罷。
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
對全靠“不懂事”而領薪的人,是不容易要他“懂事”的。
In his random reading he had never changed upon the Rubaiyat, and it was to him like a great find of treasure.
他漫無目的地讀書,就沒有讀到《魯拜集》,這對他好似一種珍貴的巨大發現。
A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time before or since.
在法國南部,八月炎熱的日子里驕陽當空,在那之前或之后這都不是什么稀罕的事。
Acts 7: 57 But they cried out with a loud voice and covered their ears and rushed upon him with one accord.
徒七57眾人大聲喊叫,捂著耳朵,同心合意地沖向他去。
pierre shook his hands and head , as though flies or bees were swarming upon him.
皮埃爾揮了揮手,晃了晃腦袋,好像有蚊蚋或蜜蜂向他襲來似的。
Zeus would then disappear for a time feasting upon an orgy of slave lovers providing him with all his desired sexual fantasies .
宙斯隨之會消失一段時間,盡情享樂奴隸情人們為他提供一切想要的性幻想所帶來的放縱快感。
Though Rebecca had had the better of him, George was above the meanness of tale-bearing or revenge upon a lady.
喬治不是卑鄙的小人,雖然吃了利蓓加的虧,究竟不至于背地里報復,說女人的壞話。
he said to himself that his hour was in sight and that it behaved him to keep his eyes upon it.
他還對自己說,他的日子已屈指可數,他必須清醒地看到這一點。
I never should have mentioned it to you if I had not felt the greatest dependence in the world upon your secrecy.
如果我沒有感到您是世界上最可以信任的、能夠保守秘密的人,我就永遠不會向您吐露這件事了。
He was, upon the whole, the more liberalminded, though, with greater subtlety, he had not so much heart.
整個說來,他比較豁達一點,雖然腦筋較為靈活,卻少些心計。
When a charged particle is so situated that an electric force acts upon it, we say that it is in an electric field.
當一個帶電粒子處在有電力作用于它的狀態下時,我們就說它處于電場中。
I had a weight of guilt upon me enough to sink any creature who had the least power of reflection left.
我有一個罪惡的重擔壓在身上,但凡有點反省能力的人都會給這重擔壓倒下去。
His career depends entirely upon my treatment of him.
他今后的前途完全要看我怎樣對待他了。
The other stood lounging with his foot upon a chair, and regarded him with a contemptuous sneer.
另外那一位立在旁邊,一只腳翹到椅子上,鄙夷地冷笑著注視他。
We may have several episodes in which most of the mass is now upon one of the stars, now upon the other.
我們可能已知道了幾個片斷,大部分質量忽而在這顆星上,忽而在那顆星上。
There was always such a lovely breeze upon the water, and you saw such lots of people.
湖面上輕拂著和煦的微風,而且還能看到各式各樣的人。