uptown

/'ʌp'taun/ uk　 词频 #15276

英语专业八级英语专业四级

uptown 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 非中心区, 住宅区

a. 住宅区的

英文释义

n. a residential part of town away from the central commercial district

a. of or located in the upper part of a town

r. toward or in the upper part of town

uptown 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 uptown 在自然语境里怎么用：

At Fiftieth Street, it turned right, went a couple of blocks, and pulled over to the uptown curb, my cubicle twenty-five stories overhead.

—— Tabula Rasa: Volume Six, by John McPhee

I had a pricey Uptown rent to pay as well as the upgraded note for the house with the new addition—in which I no longer lived.

—— Making it in a non-existent profession. The economics of the writing life are grim, mercurial, and infrequently discussed

In Pennsylvania Station, he remarked that we should take a taxi together, because he was going uptown, too, and I could get out at the Time & Life Building.

—— Tabula Rasa: Volume Six, by John McPhee

And if I hit the right grace notes—adding a well-seasoned side dish of savory pathos to my recitation of the nightly specials—some of the Uptown swells would tip the shit out of me.

—— Making it in a non-existent profession. The economics of the writing life are grim, mercurial, and infrequently discussed

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