参考词典中upheaval的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 举起,隆起,大变动,剧变
参考例句
- It was a violent political upheaval.
这是一场激烈的政治动乱。
- It was a violent political upheaval.
英英解释
4个名词解释
- a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
[同] sturm und drang, turbulence, upheaval
[例]- the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence
- a violent disturbance
[同] convulsion, turmoil, upheaval
[例]- the convulsions of the stock market
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- (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
[同] upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust - disturbance usually in protest
[同] excitement, hullabaloo, agitation, turmoil, upheaval
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