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单词 upright
释义
upright
(ʌpraɪt )
Word forms: uprights
1. adjective [usu ADJ after v, verb-link ADJECTIVE, oft ADJECTIVE noun] B2
If you are sitting or standing upright, you are sitting or standing with your back straight, rather than bending or lying down.
Helen sat upright in her chair. [+ in]
...those who had managed to remain upright.
Jerrold pulled himself upright on the bed. [+ on]
He moved into an upright position.
Synonyms: vertical, straight, standing up, erect  
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
An upright vacuum cleaner or freezer is tall rather than wide.
...the latest state-of-the-art upright vacuum cleaners.
3. adjective
An upright chair has a straight back and no arms.
He was sitting on an upright chair beside his bed, reading.
4. countable noun
You can refer to vertical posts or the vertical parts of an object as uprights.
...the uprights of a four-poster bed. [+ of]
5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You can describe people as upright when they are careful to follow acceptable rules of behaviour and behave in a moral way.
...a very upright, trustworthy man.
Synonyms: honest, good, principled, just  
Collocations:
land upright
I never had to land upright.
The Sun
The charro can not fall off, he must dismount and land upright.
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The stick had landed upright in the muddy ground, he'd gone at it full pelt and impaled it on the roof of his mouth.
Times, Sunday Times
Skiers are required to land upright.
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Next to the locomotive was an open horse wagon laden with corn that fell but landed upright.
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upright citizen
I cycle along it each morning feeling like a thoroughly upright citizen.
Times, Sunday Times
He was an upright citizen who, in 1712 loaned the king's treasury a large sum of money to avert a financial crisis.
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He was liberal in his charities without being ostentatious, was an affectionate husband, a kind father, and an upright citizen.
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upright stem
Five to twelve golden-yellow flowers long are borne in an umbel at the tip of the upright stem.
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The flowers are borne on an upright stem (peduncle) in a many-flowered raceme which forms a narrow cylindrical shape.
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The flowers grow in a dense cluster of two to twelve at the top of the upright stem.
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The upright stem has several oppositely arranged pairs of leaves up to 9 centimeters long by 6 wide.
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It has an upright stem with flowers arranged in dense, terminal, spike-like inflorescences.
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upright walking
The results are the first scientific proof that upright walking was one of the first human characteristics to emerge after the split from chimps.
The Sun
The human and chimpanzee ancestral branches diverged six million years ago, and the first upright walking hominids emerged about 3.9 million years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
Some visitors are able to descend in an upright walking fashion, more or less.
canada.com
It was previously thought that our ancestors developed upright walking as a consequence of living in the grassland savannahs.
Times, Sunday Times
They are depicted as upright walking beings with the lower body of a lion or deer, and the upper body of a human.
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Translations:
Chinese: 笔直, 笔直的, 立柱
Japanese: まっすぐ上に, 背筋を伸ばして, 支柱
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