upper crust

英 [ˌʌpə ˈkrʌst]

美 [ˌʌpər ˈkrʌst]

n.  上流社会的人; 上层人士; 达官显贵

牛津词典

noun

• 上流社会的人；上层人士；达官显贵
  the people who belong to the highest social class

柯林斯词典

• N-SING-COLL 上层阶级;上流社会；上等人家
  The upper crustare the upper classes.
  1. ...the kind of lifestyle of the privileged upper crust.
     拥有特权的上流社会的那种生活方式
  2. Upper crustis also an adjective.
     
  3. Sergeant Parrott normally spoke with an upper-crust accent.
     帕罗特军士说话通常带着上流社会的腔调。

英英释义

noun

• the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy
  Synonym:upper class

双语例句

• The mineral source was provided by both lower crust, upper mantle and upper crust, obviously from crust-mantle mixing.
  矿田中的成矿物质的不仅来自于下地壳和上地幔，而且还来自于上地壳，具有壳幔混合特征。
• The granitic magma is rising and diffusing with buoyancy and then in the form of diapire in upper crust which resulted in the extending orogeny.
  在浮力作用下花岗岩浆不断上升扩张，在上地壳内以底辟形式就位，使上地壳产生伸展造山。
• The deformations at the surface of the crust after rainfalls have close relations to the occurrence of shallow shocks in the upper crust.
  雨后地壳表面的形变与地壳上部发生的浅源地震密切相关。
• The tektite was formed from the upper crust rocks by impact melting.
  玻璃陨石是地壳岩石受撞击熔融形成的。
• The evolution of a half graben basin bounded by normal faulting in the upper crust with a Byerlee-type strength envelope has been modelled by elastoplastic finite element analysis.
  利用新近完成的粘弹塑构造模拟软件包对盆地的动力学演化进行了一系列模拟。
• Finally, the relations of composition with heat state of the upper crust were analysed.
  最后对区域上地壳成份、热状态与成矿的关系进行了探讨。
• The building was originally constructed as a hotel for upper crust springs society, but has long since been converted into offices for lawyers, accountants and such.
  这栋楼本是为镇上上层人士盖的旅店，但早已被用作律师、会计师之类的办公楼。
• Longitudinally, the upper crust structure in Jianghan-Dongting basins and their marginal orogenic belts does not change much, the middle and lower crust were generally transformed by modern tectonic activities, leading to certain changes in lithospheric structure.
  在纵向尺度上，江汉-洞庭盆地以及周缘造山带的上地壳结构变化不大，中地壳和下地壳则普遍受到现今构造活动的改造，以致岩石的结构发生了一定的变化。
• In general, the composition of lower crust is close to basalt and the composition of upper crust is similar to granite.
  一般来说，下地壳的成分接近于玄武岩，而上地壳的物质成分与花岗岩相似。
• The upper crust and mantle lid are elastic in the duration of a few decades;
  在延续数十年的情况下，上地壳以及岩石圈地幔都可能呈弹性状态；