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uplift

/verb uhp-lift; noun uhp-lift/US // verb ʌpˈlɪft; noun ˈʌpˌlɪft //

振作起来,振奋人心,振奋,振作

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lift up; raise; elevate.
    • : to improve socially, culturally, morally, or the like: to uplift downtrodden and deprived peoples.
    • : to exalt emotionally or spiritually.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become uplifted.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of lifting up or raising; elevation.
    • : the process or work of improving, as socially, intellectually, or morally.
    • : emotional or spiritual exaltation.
    • : a brassiere.
    • : Geology. an upheaval.

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Examples

  • Now, it’s in the process of tying how brand uplift leads to advertiser commercial goals through its partnership with tech company Infosum.

  • The publisher ties how these attention metrics correlate to brand uplift metrics like awareness, consideration and action.

  • Some campaigns don’t create any uplift at all, but others massively exceed these averages.

  • Walmart also saw a big uplift a few years ago when it updated its stores, notably with new grocery areas.

  • A lot of uplift would be expected, they say, if the eruptions were due to new magma pumping to the surface.

  • After all, both were in the 1930s, both involved kids wearing uniforms, both movements professed the goal of social uplift.

  • Best line: “No amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey.”

  • There was only the perpetual effort to improve the self and uplift the race.

  • For one thing, the Obamas and Cosby were speaking to—and hoping to uplift—black audiences.

  • And our comic books and movies, too, can uplift and enrich, or shape a disturbed imagination.

  • Life had taught him that real riches and power only have value as they work for social uplift.

  • I see and hear no advocacy of Socialism whose burden is not the uplift of humanity.

  • Look back, young man, on the darksome turrets of your father's house, which uplift themselves above the sons of their people.

  • There is nothing so practical to uplift men or races as Christianity.

  • The little uplift of mood, coincident with the rifling of Riggs's person, had not worn over to this evening camp.