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词汇 up-and-down
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up and down


idiom
sometimes happy and sometimes sad: (情绪)波动的,时好时坏的
She's been very up and down since her husband went into hospital.自从丈夫住院以后,她的情绪波动很大。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moods
-humoured
affect
be in one of your moodsidiom
black mood
eat
frame
humour
snit
someone's state/frame of mindidiom
spirit
strop
suck
sulky
temper
temperament
temperamentally
temperature
tone
volatility
yourself

up and down somewhere


idiom
everywhere in a particular area, especially an area that stretches from north to south: 到处,处处
Cities up and down the East Coast are preparing for the storm.东海岸各地城镇都在为迎接风暴做准备。
Cinemas up and down the country are reporting huge audiences for the film.据报道,该影片在全国各地电影院的上座率都很高。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Somewhere, anywhere, nowhere, or everywhere
across
all over
anyplace
anywhere
at every turnidiom
coast
every
from top to bottomidiom
from top to toeidiom
hunt/search high and lowidiom
length
non-universal
round
someplace
somewhere
the length and breadth of somewhereidiom
throughout
turn
ubiquitous
ubiquitously

up and down


phrase
B2
from a higher to a lower position repeatedly: 起起伏伏地,上上下下地
jump up and downMy little girl started jumping up and down with rage when she heard she couldn't go.我的小女儿在得知她不能去后非常生气,开始不停地跳上跳下。
I could see his white head bobbing up and down in the crowd.
Ease your backache by placing a tennis ball between the wall and your back and moving up and down.
Can you move that shoulder up and down?
The children jumped up and down on their beds.
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upadverb(HIGHER)

up and down


phrase
B2
along the surface of something first in one direction and then in the opposite direction, usually repeatedly: 来回,往复
He was running up and down the street, shouting.他沿着街道来回跑,大声呼喊。
They were running up and down the pitch, dribbling the ball.
Couples were strolling up and down the promenade.
Move the massage rollers up and down your back.
They drove up and down the coast, searching for the missing girl.
See also
uppreposition(ALONG)
up-and-down
adjective
uk /ˌʌp.ənˈdaʊn/ us /ˌʌp.ənˈdaʊn/
sometimes successful and sometimes not successful时好时坏的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unsuccessful (people and things)
abortive
abortively
achiever
be dead in the wateridiom
bootless
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
frustrated
futile
futilely
on the rocksidiom
on the ropesidiom
redemption
rope
small-time
unviable
vain
vainly
washed up
you and whose army?idiom

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Successful (things or people)

up and down | American Dictionary


up and down
adverb
us/ˈʌp·ənˈdɑʊn/
in one direction and then in the opposite direction, esp. repeatedly:
The dog was running up and down the path.

Examples of up and down


up and down
This speaker layout creates an effect of up-and-down sound movement when sounds are moved from left to right.
Likewise, modifications of test methods may take less time, as has been the case with the acceptance of the up-and-down procedure for acute oral toxicity.
The restraint device did not allow more than 1 mm of side-to-side, or up-and-down movement.
A typical chaotic trajectory of the implied actual law of motion will be characterized by up-and-down oscillation around the unstable steady state.
All electrons have an oscillating up-and-down motion.
This index has an up-and-down profile, but nevertheless indicates an overall increase with age, from an initial value of about 0n10 to a final value of about 0n30.
In this simple model, each leg has only two linear degrees of freedom, one for back-and-forward locomotion, the other for up-and-down locomotion, implemented by a pair of binary prismatic joints.
The dollar does not have the up-and-down rollercoaster history that the pound sterling has had over the past 20 years.
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There has been some up-and-down movement in the middle.
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Ministerial responsibility for the arts has been an up-and-down affair.
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In both cases, we see up-and-down movements that are the result of mismanagement or non-management of the exchange rate.
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Every one of them had an up-and-down shunting yard, and after the amalgamation in 1921 it was thought desirable to have some kind of modern methods.
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It is not inconceivable that in 20 years the argument may be the other way round, because in the long run mining is an up-and-down world.
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He is doing an up-and-down trick.
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Remember that these ferries are crossing an area of water in which there is not only heavy cross-seas traffic but also heavy up-and-down traffic as well.
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