upheaval是什么意思？

upheaval

英[ʌpˈhi:vl] 美[ʌpˈhivəl]

• n. 突变，剧变，[地]隆起，举起，抬起；

复数：upheavals;

例句

• It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ. 它面临第二次世界大战以来最大的社会动乱。
• Faced with upheaval , City scrapped its admissions standards altogether. 面对突入起来的变化, 城市大学完全改变了他的招生标准.
• Wherever there is political upheaval, invariably there are refugees. 哪里有政治动乱，哪里就一定有难民。
• And here lie the seeds of the whole subsequent upheaval. 这就包含着随之而来的全部变革的萌芽.
• Having a baby will mean the greatest upheaval in your life. 有了孩子意味着你的生活要发生重大的变化。
• Wherever there is political upheaval, invariably there are refugees... 哪里有政治动乱，哪里就一定有难民。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  激变；剧变；动乱
  An upheaval is a big change which causes a lot of trouble, confusion, and worry.
  例句
  Wherever there is political upheaval, invariably there are refugees... 哪里有政治动乱，哪里就一定有难民。 Having a baby will mean the greatest upheaval in your life. 有了孩子意味着你的生活要发生重大的变化。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  突然的巨变;大动荡;大变动
  It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ. 它面临第二次世界大战以来最大的社会动乱。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally);
  "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
  2. a violent disturbance;
  "the convulsions of the stock market"
  3. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
  4. disturbance usually in protest

行业词典

• 公路科技： 拥包；
  法律： 动乱；