- 1高檔的、走高價位路線的(英式說法;美式多說 upscale)
Upmarket means made for people with money — more expensive, better quality, and aimed at customers who can pay more. You use it about shops, restaurants, hotels, brands, clothes, and whole neighbourhoods: an upmarket café, an upmarket area of the city. It works as an adjective ('an upmarket restaurant') and also as an adverb after 'go' or 'move' ('the brand has gone upmarket'), which means the company decided to sell , pricier things than before. Its opposite is 'downmarket', which is cheaper and aimed at ordinary buyers. Two things worth noticing. First, upmarket describes the customers a business is chasing, not just the price tag — an upmarket shop is trying to attract a certain kind of person. Second, it carries a small edge. Depending on how you say it, 'upmarket' can be plain description or a light poke at people trying to look richer than they are: 'It's gone a bit upmarket since they redecorated' often means the coffee costs twice as much now. This is British English, and common in Australia too. Americans usually say 'upscale' in the same places, and 'high-end' works for both.
組成up-(往上、更高)+ market(市場)。字面是「市場的上層」——瞄準願意花錢的那一群顧客。
同家族的字
- downmarketthe exact opposite, built the same way — cheaper, for ordinary buyers
- marketthe same market as in 'the Japanese market' — a group of buyers, not a place with stalls
- supermarketanother market compound you already know
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
upmarketadj
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economicssciencesDesigned for customers with a high income.
- Temperatures in the western suburbs of Sydney, far from the upmarket beachside glamour, reached 47C (117F) last week, topping the 44C I experienced there the week before. For reference, if it reached 47C in the middle of the Sahara desert, that would be an unusually hot day.
upmarketadv
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Towards the more expensive end of the market.
- The hotel seems to have gone upmarket.
upmarketverb
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To render or become upmarket.
- […] their flats and shops are upmarketed or pulled down to be replaced by hotels, offices and a privately owned park.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。