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单词 upside downwards
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upside downwardsadv.

Forms: Also upside downward.
Etymology: < upside down adv. + -ward suffix, -wards suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈupside ˈdownward(s.
= upside down adv.
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the world > space > relative position > inversion > inverted [phrase]
upside downc1340
topset downe1569
up and down1591
upside downwards1611
topside down1725
(to fall) face on1856
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enverser,..to turne vpside-downeward, or the inside outward.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues , s.vv. Reboursé, Revers.
1622 T. Walkley tr. J. de Luna Pursuit Hist. Lazarillo xiii. 151 She made the peeces of my Cloake to bee stitched one to another, and for very haste they put them vpside downewards.
1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 131 On his arrival he found the town turned, as we say, upside downwards.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. i. 42 As he tossed, with a careless hand, the great horn upside downwards.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. ix. 204 I think the world is turned upside downwards in these parts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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