one-upping 的 2 个定义
- having gained an advantage in some way that betokens success, especially over rivals.
 - leading an opponent by one point or one scoring unit: The home team was one up on the visitors.
 - one each; tied at a score of one: The score was one up in the ninth inning.
 
- Printing. with only one reproduction of a form per sheet or on a given sheet: We must print this job one up.
 - Journalism. using one more column of space than of type.
 
one-upping 近义词
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更多one-upping例句
- Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
 - In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
 - Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
 - The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
 - The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
 - Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
 - He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
 - There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
 - Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
 - Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.