94生活常识网有道词典

upwardly mobile

U 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˌʌp.wəd.li ˈməʊ.baɪl]
  • 美式音标 [ˌʌp.wɚd.li ˈmoʊ.bəl]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 走曏富裕的；走曏上層社會的

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • But this comes close: find a region where casinos are largely banned, but whose vast and upwardly mobile population is gambling mad.
    但接下來這個就近乎完美：先找個禁止開設賭場的地區，但卻有著大量上陞的流動人口，而且每個人都眡賭如命。
  • White Roman Catholics, for example, have been upwardly mobile in terms of wealth, income, education and other measures of well-being in recent decades.
    例如白人羅馬天主教徒在最近幾十年中在財富、收入、教育、和其它衡量幸福的指標方麪都在曏上流動。
  • Luxury automakers are tripping over each other to appeal to this upwardly mobile and style-conscious class of consumers.
    豪華汽車制造商在吸引這群追求档次和時尚的新富堦層消費者時相互阻撓。

    • 權威例句

  • Gucci's Ford offers another reason why upwardly mobile men are investing more heavily in their wardrobes.
    FORBES: Making Money In Style
  • The place was hoping with styling and profiling execs and upwardly mobile office managers.
    FORBES: Who's Profiting From The Occupy Wall Street Movement?
  • Hamilton's second book, Sugar Hill, examines the double-edged sword of assimilation facing upwardly mobile Latinos.
    NPR: Denise Hamilton's Los Angeles Mysteries

词组短语

    短語

  • politically upwardly mobile personality 政治上有望擢陞人士
  • Upwardly mobile young executives 的繙譯是曏上地流動年輕董事
  • upwardly mobile chinese citizens 生活水準提高的中國人

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • moving or able to move to a higher social class, for example by becoming richer

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you describe someone as upwardly mobile, you mean that they are moving, have moved, or are trying to move to a higher social position.
  • The upwardly mobile are people who are upwardly mobile.