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CHANGE/BECOME DIFFERENTa very big change that often causes problems 〔往往会带来问题的〕激变,剧变;动乱
political upheaval
政治剧变
Moving house is a major upheaval.
搬家很折腾。
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upheaval• He hadn't realised pregnancy was such a dislocatingexperience, or even that getting married itself would cause such an upheaval.• And upheaval has definitely reachedNorthCounty.• Moving to a different school can be a big upheaval for young children.• The company managed to survive the economicupheavals of the last 20 years.• Changing jobs can be an excitingchallenge, but it can also be a time of great emotionalupheaval.• Still another possibility is that the United States is heading into an era of politicalupheaval and reform.• The upheavals of the era tended to come together, one kind of revolution easily attaching itself to another.• And yet, in the last ten years, what upheavals there have been.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + UPHEAVAL | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤big, enormous, great, major, massive大動亂;激變▸➤cultural, economic, emotional, political, social文化劇變;經濟變革;情緒波動;政治動盪;社會動盪➤violent劇烈動盪▸➤revolutionary革命暴動VERB + UPHEAVAL➤cause導致激變▸➤experience, go through, undergo經歷劇變◇The company underwent a massive upheaval after the takeover.收購之後該公司變動巨大。PREPOSITION➤during the upheaval, in the upheaval在動亂期間◇He rose to power during the political upheavals of the 1990s.他在 20 世紀 90 年代政治動亂期間上台執政。PHRASES➤a period of upheaval動盪時期