词汇 | upside |
释义 | upside noun[ S ] uk /ˈʌp.saɪd/ us /ˈʌp.saɪd/ the advantage of a situation: 优点;好处;有利的一面 It's annoying that we can't travel until Thursday, but the upside is that tickets are cheaper then.烦人的是我们要等到周四才能出发去旅行,但好处是到时票价会便宜些。 Compare downside Advantage and disadvantage ace an ace up your sleeveidiom attraction be well in thereidiom be/stay/keep one jump aheadidiom have it both waysidiom have something on your sideidiom have the inside trackidiom have the odds/cards stacked against youidiom head start leg lock milk privileged profit from something racing start saving grace scent bloodidiom stick the best of both worldsidiom upside | American Dictionaryupside noun[ U ] us/ˈʌpˌsɑɪd/ the positive part of a situation: It’s too bad we can’t go until Thursday, but the upside is that we get to stay through the weekend. upside | Business Englishupside noun[ S ] /ˈʌpsaɪd/ukus an advantage: upside of/to sthOne upside of a slowdown in demand is that it means there is less danger of inflation. The building needs some work, but on the upside it's located in the best part of the business district. Compare downside Examples of upsideupside This is given by an upside-down four-sided pyramid. In both houses several complete and nearly complete vessels had been placed, at least one of -which stood upside down. Lures were painted black with a permanent marker and placed individually upside down at the centre of each disc. Essentially, this hinges on the observation that a finite lattice 'turned upside-down' is still a finite lattice. Compared to the traditional colonial situation the world was turned upside down. With these, he turned the traditional interests of architecture and society upside down. This game is played with 36 illustrated cards, placed upside down, that depict the performance, or nonperformance, of various activities. One might at this point object that we have not solved linguistic problems but rather turned them upside down. Half of the inscription is set upside down. For practical reasons the experiments were performed 'upside-down' with the sill attached to the upper surface and buoyancy forcing at the lower surface. Spatial suffixes were tested with the same target objects and two glasses as reference objects, one standing upright and the other standing upside down. The upside: it is inspiriting to read a study of jazz which has such historical sweep. Reductionism about personal identity turns the analogy between person and state upside down. The intuition provided is that a risky investment is necessary to ensure enough upside potential. We poor clumsy men and women turned the world upside down, inside out, round and about. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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