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trickle-up

/trik-uhl-uhp/US // ˈtrɪk əlˈʌp //

涓涓细流,涓流,滴灌,涓流效应

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
    • : noting or pertaining to the theory that change and information moves upward in a hierarchy.

Examples

  • “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

  • In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.

  • We won't find out this season, though it comes up occasionally.

  • Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.

  • The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.

  • Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.

  • In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.

  • The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.