upgrade

英 [ˌʌp'ɡreɪd] 美 [ˌʌp'ɡreɪd]

• vt. 升级；提高；改善
• adv. 向上地
• n. 升级；上坡

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 提高等级

   give a higher position

详尽释义

adv. 副词

1. 往山上，上坡地
2. 向上地

n. 名词

1. 上坡
2. 升级，升格，提高品级，提高等级
3. 上升
4. 斜坡，向上的斜坡
5. 提高，改善

adj. 形容词

1. 上升的，向上的
2. 上坡的

v. 动词

1. 提高，提升
2. 使升级，使升格
3. 浓缩，加浓
4. 提高…的价格，以高档货的价格出售（低档货）
5. 提拔
6. 改善，改进
7. 提高…的待遇
8. 提高质量，提高档次
9. 升级
10. 提级，晋升
11. 加强

英英释义

Noun:

1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road);

   "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
   

2. software that provides better performance than an earlier version did

3. a reservation that is improved;

   "I got an upgrade to first class when coach class was full"
   

4. the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

5. hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did

6. the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components);

   "the power plant received a new upgrade"
   

Verb:

1. rate higher; raise in value or esteem

2. to improve what was old or outdated;

   "I've upgraded my computer so I can run better software"
   "The company upgraded their personnel"
   

3. give a promotion to or assign to a higher position;

   "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"
   "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"
   "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
   

4. get better travel conditions;

   "I upgraded to First Class when Coach Class was overbooked"
   

5. give better travel conditions to;

   "The airline upgraded me when I arrived late and Coach Class was full"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. Please click here to upgrade your Player.
   请单击此处,升级您的播放器。
2. Companies need to upgrade servers.
   公司需要对服务器升级。
3. We need to upgrade the pay and status of teachers.
   我们需要提高教师的工资和地位。
4. We must try to upgrade our cattle to the required standard of meat.
   我们必须努力提高牛的品级，使之达到所要求的食用肉标准。
5. The money enabled us to upgrade the town's leisure facilities.
   这笔钱使我们得以改善本镇的休闲设施。
6. We need to upgrade our communications system.
   我们需要改善我们的通讯系统。

用作副词 (adv.)

1. After a short break, the climbers continued upgrade.
   稍事休息後,攀登者们继续往山上走。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The power plant received a new upgrade.
   那个电厂进行了一次升级改造。
2. It is complex to maintain them after the upgrade.
   升级后的维护很复杂。
3. Soon the truck come into sight on an upgrade.
   不一会儿,卡车就出现在上坡处。
4. Thefts have been on the upgrade.
   盗窃案已在增多。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. We need to upgrade the pay and status of teachers.
   我们需要提高教师的工资和地位。
2. They upgraded the land by improving it with new buildings.
   他们以建造新楼房来提高土地的等级。

经典引文

• I have no taste for overtaking runaway mules on a steep and interminable upgrade.

  出自： K. Sanborn

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

upgrade to (v.+prep.)

提高到…标准〔级别〕 raise the standard of sth to a higher level
upgrade sb/sth to sb/sth
The farmers have been trying to upgrade their cattle to the required standard.

农民们一直在力图使他们的牛达到标准。
She was upgraded to sales director.

她已被提升为销售部主任。
Our legation was upgraded to an embassy.

我们的公使馆升级为大使馆。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• upgrade the land 提高土地等级
• upgrade the pay 提高工资
• upgrade the status 提高地位

～+介词

• upgrade to 提高到…标准〔级别〕

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. upgrade的基本意思是使当前的状况再提高一个等级。只用作及物动词,可接名词或代词作宾语。
2. upgrade可接介词to表示“提高到…标准”。

近反义词

【近义词】

• promote 促进
• advance 前进
• raise 上升
• elevate 举起
• promotion 提升
• advancement 前进
• elevation 提升
• exaltation (成功带来的)得意...
• improvement 改进
• upgrading 提升
• renovation 革新
• modernization 现代化
• enhancement 增强
• improve 改善
• update 更新
• renew 重新开始
• modernize (使) 现代化
• ascent 上升
• aggrandize 增加
• rise 上升
• kick upstairs （使）明升暗降...
• acclivity 向上的陡坡
• climb 攀登
• rising slope 上升斜率

【反义词】

• downgrade 使降低