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upriver

/uhp-riv-er/US // ˈʌpˈrɪv ər //UK // (ˈʌpˈrɪvə) //

上游,逆流而上,上游的,逆流

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : in the direction of or nearer the source of a river: It's hard to paddle a canoe upriver; an upriver settlement of tribes.

Examples

  • It was a close choice between Jezero Crater and a highland, “upriver” region nearby called Nili Planum, Mustard says.

  • For decades, every morning at 6, Dubey has rowed upriver, alone and in silence.

  • He’s never had any of his family on it — he tells them to rent if they want a boat ride upriver.

  • Moving the bridge upriver, farther from the island, would affect other “significant resources,” Brookman said.

  • In the 1950s, when the current bridge was being planned, the club persuaded the state to move it upriver to better spare Plummers Island, according to a history of the Beltway published by the Montgomery County Historical Society.

  • A few hundred meters upriver, you see groves of date palms swaying as if underwater.

  • In a rather unfortunate coincidence, the chemical plant is just upriver from a water intake facility.

  • After her rescue and a year in exile upriver, she had rethought her vow never to return.

  • Nancy Shando, a librarian from nearby Hurley, New York, headed upriver on her jet ski Friday afternoon to take a closer look.

  • Ive got you to thank that my logs are here to-night, instead of somewhere upriver.

  • The starting out place for the trip was twenty miles from Georgetown at a town upriver called Bartica.

  • I discovered that the first part of our trip upriver was not as full of adventures as I had hoped.

  • All the people in the vicinity were afraid and ran northward, upriver, abandoning their food and dishes and property.

  • Austin swept his gaze upriver, but could only see the shadowy mangroves, for the moon had not come through yet.