upper crust
上层地壳,上层壳,上层地皮,上层
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- : the topmost layer of crust, as of a pie.
- : Informal. the highest social class.
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Despite Mars’ impressive volcanic architecture, a lot of its magma seems to be injected into the upper crust and simply stuck there, sometimes creating enormous volcanic protuberances.
Cover crust with parchment paper and pour in baking beans or weights.
Kanye refuses to stomach any rejection, no matter how upper crust.
If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.
White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.
Targeting her upper back, Couple sat cross-legged on a table while she whipped her slave.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
The upper part of the stem is usually unbranched, but whorls of branches occur towards the base.
The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.