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upwards 音标拼音: ['ʌpwɚdz] ad. 在上,向上,向内,增长 在上,向上,向内,增长 upwards adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; " look up!"; " the music surged up"; " the fragments flew upwards"; " prices soared upwards"; " upwardly mobile" [ synonym: { up}, { upwards}, { upward}, { upwardly}] [ ant: { down}, { downward}, { downwardly}, { downwards}] 2: to a later time; " they moved the meeting date up"; " from childhood upward" [ synonym: { up}, { upwards}, { upward}] Upward \ Up" ward\, Upwards \ Up" wards\, adv. [ AS. upweardes. See { Up-}, and {- wards}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] 2. In the upper parts; above. [ 1913 Webster] Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. [ 1913 Webster] From twenty years old and upward. -- Num. i. 3. [ 1913 Webster] { Upward of}, or { Upwards of}, more than; above. [ 1913 Webster] I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
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