- 1（物）倒過來放、翻倒；（事）徹底顛覆、打亂
To turn something over so the end that was at the bottom is now at the top — literally to stand it on end, or flip it upside down. You upend a box to shake out what is inside. A wave can upend a small boat. If you knock a glass over on the table, you have upended it.
To turn something over把東西翻過來 so the end that was at the bottom is now at the top讓原本在底部的一端變成在頂部 literally to stand it on end字面上就是把它立起來 or flip it upside down或是把它上下翻轉 You你 upend把箱子倒過來 a box to shake out what is inside把箱子裡的東西倒出來 A wave一個大浪 can upend可以打翻 a small boat一艘小船 If you knock a glass over on the table如果你在桌上把杯子碰倒 you你 have upended it就是弄翻了它
The word is used just as often for ideas as for objects, and this second use is the one you meet more in reading. To upend a plan, a system, an industry, or someone's life means to overturn it completely — to change it so much that the old arrangement no longer stands. "The new law upended the housing market." "Her father's death upended everything." Notice the feeling: it is sudden and total, and usually not something the affected people chose.
The word這個字 is used just as often for ideas as for objects用在抽象的想法上跟用在具體物品上一樣常見 and this second use is the one you meet more in reading而這第二種用法是你在閱讀時比較會遇到的 To upend a plan, a system, an industry, or someone's lifeupend一項計畫、一個系統、一個產業、或某人的人生 means to overturn it completely意思是把它徹底顛覆 to change it so much that the old arrangement no longer stands改變到讓原本的安排再也站不住腳 "The new law upended the housing market."新法規顛覆了房市 "Her father's death upended everything."她父親的過世徹底打亂了一切 Notice the feeling注意這種感覺 it is sudden and total它是突然又全面的 and usually not something the affected people chose而且通常不是受影響的人自己選的
It is stronger than "change" and more disruptive than "improve". A journalist writing about a new technology will say it upended an industry; a novelist will say a letter upended a character's quiet life.
It它 is stronger than "change"比「change」更強烈 and more disruptive than "improve"也比「improve」更具破壞性 A journalist writing about a new technology一位寫新科技報導的記者 will say it upended an industry會說它顛覆了一個產業 a novelist一位小說家 will say a letter upended a character's quiet life會說一封信打亂了一個角色平靜的人生
It is a normal verb: upend, upends, upended, upending. It is slightly formal — more common in writing and news than in everyday chat, where people say "turn it over", "knock it over", or "turn everything upside down".
It這 is a normal verb是一個規則動詞 upend, upends, upended, upending動詞的四種變化形式 It它 is slightly formal有點正式 more common in writing and news than in everyday chat在書寫和新聞裡比在日常閒聊裡更常見 where people say日常閒聊時人們會說 "turn it over"把它翻過來 "knock it over"把它撞倒 or "turn everything upside down"或把所有東西弄得天翻地覆
core核心畫面
組成up + end. To put a thing on its end — hence to turn it over. The figurative sense grew out of the physical one: something whose whole arrangement has been flipped.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Upendname
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A hamlet in Kirtling parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL7058).
upendverb/ʌpˈɛnd/
- 1
To end up; to set on end.
- 2
To tip or turn over.
- When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both.
- upend the box and empty the contents
- 3
To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.
- The scientific evidence upended the popular myth.
- James Meredith's forced admission was a milestone in upending the old order in America's most segregated state, a kind of race relations ground zero.
- 4
To affect or upset drastically.
- By the middle of March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic upended normal life for virtually all Americans.
- Coral, another company trying to upend the salon industry, obtained $4.3 million in venture funding around the same time. But Bradley Leong, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, said that because they could not get the device’s price as low as they had hoped in its current iteration, they were making it semirobotic to decrease the cost.
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