uplift

英 [ˈʌplɪft , ˌʌpˈlɪft]

美 [ˈʌplɪft , ˌʌpˈlɪft]

n.  提高; 抬高; 增长; 增加; 振奋; 鼓舞; (地壳的)隆起，上升
v.  鼓励; 激励; 使振奋

复数：uplifts　过去式：uplifted　过去分词：uplifted　第三人称单数：uplifts　现在分词：uplifting　

TEM8

BNC.12721 / COCA.17108

牛津词典

noun

• 提高；抬高；增长；增加
  the fact of sth being raised or of sth increasing
  1. an uplift in sales
     销售的增长
  2. an uplift bra (= that raises the breasts)
     挺高式乳罩
• 振奋；鼓舞
  a feeling of hope and happiness
  1. The news gave them a much needed uplift.
     这消息给他们带来了及时的鼓舞。
• （地壳的）隆起，上升
  the process or result of land being moved to a higher level by movements inside the earth

verb

• 鼓励；激励；使振奋
  to make sb feel happier or give sb more hope

柯林斯词典

The verb is pronounced /ʌp'lɪft/. The noun is pronounced /'ʌplɪft/. 动词读作/ʌp'lɪft/，名词读作/'ʌplɪft/。


• VERB 使振奋；提升
  If somethingupliftspeople, it helps them to have a better life, for example by making them feel happy or by improving their social conditions.
  1. We need a little something to help sometimes, to uplift us and make us feel better...
     有时候，我们需要一些小东西来激励自己，使自己感觉更好。
  2. Art was created to uplift the mind and the spirit.
     艺术创作旨在陶冶情操。
  3. Upliftis also a noun.
     
  4. This victory was a massive uplift for us.
     这个胜利对我们来说是巨大的鼓舞。
• N-COUNT 上扬；上涨；增长
  In economics, anupliftin something such as the price of shares is an increase in their value.
  1. ...an uplift in the stock market...
     股市上涨
  2. Its shares were down across the first quarter, but are now showing a 20 per cent uplift.
     它的股票在第一季度陷入低迷，但现在累计已有20%的涨幅。

英英释义

noun

• a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts
• (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
  Synonym:upheavalupthrowupthrust

verb

• fill with high spirits
  1. Music can uplift your spirits
  Synonym:elatelift uppick upintoxicate
• lift up or elevate
• lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
  1. the earth's movement uplifted this part of town

双语例句

• With the uplift and Quaternary climate change, the Yulong mountain engendered four plaeoglaciations and has grown modern glaciers.
  在山体上升和第四纪气候变化的背景下，玉龙山产生了四次更新世冰川作用，并发育有现代冰。
• Uplift is the main factors that destroy the sealing capacity of cap rocks.
  构造抬升是盖层封闭性发生破坏的主要因素；
• As a kind of special carbonate uplift, reef was a good storage place of oil and gas.
  生物礁作为一种特殊的碳酸盐岩隆，是石油和天然气良好的储存场所。
• Uplift pile and compressive pile mechanism analysis and loading capacity calculation
  抗拔桩和抗压桩的机理分析及承载力计算
• During upper Silurian-Devonian, the basin is in extrusion state, and turn up large scale uplift;
  晚志留世-泥盆纪盆地处于挤压状态，出现了大范围的隆起；
• There has been an intermittent uplift of the land and subsidence of the sea going on.
  陆地上升和海洋下沉一直在间歇地进行。
• But they add that the drop will roughly be balanced by slow uplift due to tectonic activity.
  但是他们补充道，下降的1米大致会由地质构造活动缓慢的抬升来粗略达到平衡。
• The combined effect of uplift and denudation upon the temperature gradient can be obtained by formula ( 3.86).
  抬升和剥蚀对温度梯度的联合效应可以根据公式（3.86）进行估定。
• Mountains work on the human unconscious with their powers of uplift.
  高山对于人类的无意识有高耸仰止的力量。
• Numerical value show: circular-ring energy dissipater can control seismic response and uplift.
  数值计算表明：圆环耗能器能够有效的控制地震响应及提离。