upstanding 英 [ʌp'stændɪŋ]   美 [,ʌp'stændɪŋ]

upstanding

upstanding  英 [ʌp'stændɪŋ] 美 [,ʌp'stændɪŋ]

adj. 良好的;正直的;直立的;姿势笔直的 

This is all fine and good if your friends all happen to be upstanding, intelligent, amazing people. 如果你的朋友们刚巧都是很正直、聪明的好人,这当然没有问题。
She had the new style of hair, all upstanding curls, which I admired, a dress with a print round the hem; she was very pregnant, so that her belly seemed to be coming at me first. 她留着新式的发型,是我所喜欢的那种满头卷发竖立着的式样,穿着沿褶边印有花纹的裙子。 由于她怀孕已快足月,所以她向我走过来时似乎是她的肚子最先到达我面前。

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  • adj. 良好的;正直的;直立的;姿势笔直的
  • 1. This is all fine and good if your friends all happen to be upstanding, intelligent, amazing people.

    如果你的朋友们刚巧都是很正直、聪明的好人,这当然没有问题。

  • 2. She had the new style of hair, all upstanding curls, which I admired, a dress with a print round the hem; she was very pregnant, so that her belly seemed to be coming at me first.

    她留着新式的发型,是我所喜欢的那种满头卷发竖立着的式样,穿着沿褶边印有花纹的裙子。 由于她怀孕已快足月,所以她向我走过来时似乎是她的肚子最先到达我面前。

  • 3. Those upstanding arteries and that sorely tried heart would not enable him to gather strength in the intervals between the rounds.

    那些突出的动脉和那颗疲劳已极的心脏使得不能在两个回合之间的休息里重振威力。

  • upstanding (adj.) 14c., altered from or replacing Old English upstandene, in the literal sense, from up (adv.) + standing (see stand (v.)); see -ing (2). Figurative sense of "honest" is attested from 1863. A verb upstand "stand up, be erect, rise" is recorded from c. 1200.
up·stand·ing / ˌʌpˈstændɪŋ ; NAmE ˌʌpˈstændɪŋ / adjective [usually before noun ] ( formal) behaving in a moral and honest way 正直的;正派的;诚实的 SYN upright an upstanding member of the community 群体中正直的一分子 IDIOM be upˈstanding ( BrE) ( formal) used in a formal situation to tell people to stand up (用于正式场合)请起立 Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding and join me in a toast to the bride and groom. 各位来宾,请大家起立,我们一起为新娘新郎干一杯。 up·stand·ing / ˌʌpˈstændɪŋ ; NAmE ˌʌpˈstændɪŋ /
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