upright

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up·right1 /ˈʌpraɪt/ adjectiveadj, adverbadv

1 VERTICALstanding or sitting straight up 〔站或坐得〕笔直的[地]，挺直的[地]

sit/stand/walk upright

The chimpanzee stood upright and grasped the bars of its cage.

黑猩猩直立着，抓住笼子的铁栅。

Katie was still awake, sitting bolt upright (=sitting with her back very straight) staring at the television.

凯蒂还醒着，坐得笔直，眼睛盯着电视。

pull/push/draw etc yourself upright

He pulled himself upright and faced me.

他直起身面对我。

2 placed in a vertical position (=pointing in a line that is at an angle of 90° to a flat surface) 竖直的[地]，垂直的 [地]，直立的[地]

Your seat should be in the upright position when the plane is landing.

飞机降落时应调直座椅靠背。

Keep the bottle upright.

让瓶子立着。

3 GOOD/MORALalways behaving in an honest way 正直的，诚实的

He was a good honest upright man.

他是位诚实、正直的好人。

► see thesaurus at honest

—uprightness noun [uncountableU]

n COLLOCATIONS

verbs

sit upright

She was sitting upright in bed.

stand upright

The ceiling was so low I was unable to stand upright.

walk upright

These apes came down from the trees and gradually learned to walk upright.

pull/push yourself upright

He pulled himself upright on the sofa.

draw yourself upright (=stand straighter)

Susan drew herself upright and thrust out her chin.

phrases

sit/stand bolt upright (=sit or stand with your back very straight)

Murphy and I both sat bolt upright when we heard the alarm.

nouns

an upright posture/stance (=a straight body position)

He appears big because of his powerful shoulders and upright posture.

Examples from the Corpus

upright• He had seen one advertised, a small upright Bösendorfer.• Dickensian child victims grow into upright citizens if they grow up at all.• It went on a line into the stands and hit the same upright girder.• Here were the upright golden flames of the poplars lining the road, and the willows yellowing down by the creek.• Elfed, a sober and upright man who was to become unfairly the sounding board for Richard's first rebellions.

pull/push/draw etc yourself upright• She landed in the mud and struggled to push herself upright.• Twigs dug into the palms of his hands as he pushed himself upright.• As he pushed himself upright he saw a fleeting figure just on the other side of the perimeter fence.• He pushed himself upright, shaking his head to make the wheeling stars go away.

upright position• But he leapt through the staggering sharpness of it and achieved an upright position.• Kneeling beside him, she tried, unsuccessfully, to push him into an upright position.• She pushed a button, cranking the bed to a more upright position.• The reliquary consists of the figure of the Saint from the head to the waist and is situated in an upright position.• The uterus rises to a more upright position.• He achieved some sort of upright position, although his treacherous legs deserted him immediately.• The taller stances, in which the practitioner adopts an almost upright position, are fast but weak.• I eased into an upright position, ducking back out of sight until I heard him start the car and pull away.

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