喜樂美語
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    To turn something over so the end that was at the bottom is now at the top — literally to stand it on end, or flip it upside down. You upend a box to shake out what is inside. A wave can upend a small boat. If you knock a glass over on the table, you have upended it. The word is used just as often for ideas as for objects, and this second use is the one you meet more in reading. To upend a plan, a system, an industry, or someone's life means to overturn it completely — to change it so much that the old arrangement no longer stands. "The new law upended the housing market." "Her father's death upended everything." Notice the feeling: it is sudden and total, and usually not something the affected people chose. It is stronger than "change" and more disruptive than "improve". A journalist writing about a new technology will say it upended an industry; a novelist will say a letter upended a character's quiet life. It is a normal verb: upend, upends, upended, upending. It is slightly formal — more common in writing and news than in everyday chat, where people say "turn it over", "knock it over", or "turn everything upside down".

    （物）倒過來放、翻倒；（事）徹底顛覆、打亂

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組成up + end. To put a thing on its end — hence to turn it over. The figurative sense grew out of the physical one: something whose whole arrangement has been flipped.

同家族的字

  • endthe second piece, the same 'end' as in 'the end of the road'
  • updosame up- as the first piece

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Upendname

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    A hamlet in Kirtling parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL7058).

upendverb/ʌpˈɛnd/

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    To end up; to set on end.

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    To tip or turn over.

    • When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both.
    • upend the box and empty the contents
  • 3

    To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.

    • The scientific evidence upended the popular myth.
    • James Meredith's forced admission was a milestone in upending the old order in America's most segregated state, a kind of race relations ground zero.
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    To affect or upset drastically.

    • By the middle of March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic upended normal life for virtually all Americans.
    • Coral, another company trying to upend the salon industry, obtained $4.3 million in venture funding around the same time. But Bradley Leong, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, said that because they could not get the device’s price as low as they had hoped in its current iteration, they were making it semirobotic to decrease the cost.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。