upper crust

英 [ˌʌpə ˈkrʌst]

美 [ˌʌpər ˈkrʌst]

n.  上流社会的人; 上层人士; 达官显贵

牛津词典

noun

• 上流社会的人；上层人士；达官显贵
  the people who belong to the highest social class

柯林斯词典

• N-SING-COLL 上层阶级;上流社会；上等人家
  The upper crustare the upper classes.
  1. ...the kind of lifestyle of the privileged upper crust.
     拥有特权的上流社会的那种生活方式
  2. Upper crustis also an adjective.
     
  3. Sergeant Parrott normally spoke with an upper-crust accent.
     帕罗特军士说话通常带着上流社会的腔调。

英英释义

noun

• the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy
  Synonym:upper class

双语例句

• Most of the faults in the southeast coast of Fujian Province occur in the sial of upper crust and some have reached the sima.
  福建东南沿海断裂1多发生于上地壳硅铝层，少数达硅镁层。
• The inversion for the Q value of the upper crust along the profile from Baicheng to Da Qaidam has been carried out using seismic reflection/ refraction data acquired on the profiles which cross the Tarim basin, the Altun orogenic belt and the Qaidam basin, respectively.
  利用横跨塔里木盆地、阿尔金造山带和柴达木盆地的拜城大柴旦综合地球物理剖面的人工地震宽角反射折射资料，对拜城大柴旦剖面研究区上地壳的Q值结构进行了反演。
• The geochemical study of the river can obtain the drainage basin chemical weathering, average chemical and isotopic composition of the upper crust.
  河流的地球化学研究可以获得流域盆地化学风化及上地壳的平均化学和同位素组成。
• S-wave velocity structure of the middle and upper crust in the Yunnan region
  云南地区地壳中上部横波速度结构研究
• Its composition of detrital mineral was felsic mainly from upper crust.
  其碎屑母岩应主要源自上地壳，以长英质成分为主。
• The compression stress field of the upper crust in Songliao basin is different from place to place especially from north to south of the area.
  松辽盆地整个上部地壳所受到的挤压应力场在南北两大地区存在空间差别。
• The deformations at the surface of the crust after rainfalls have close relations to the occurrence of shallow shocks in the upper crust.
  雨后地壳表面的形变与地壳上部发生的浅源地震密切相关。
• The ore lead in the deposits mainly came from the upper crust.
  矿床的矿石铅主要来自上地壳。
• The granitic magma is rising and diffusing with buoyancy and then in the form of diapire in upper crust which resulted in the extending orogeny.
  在浮力作用下花岗岩浆不断上升扩张，在上地壳内以底辟形式就位，使上地壳产生伸展造山。
• The evolution of a half graben basin bounded by normal faulting in the upper crust with a Byerlee-type strength envelope has been modelled by elastoplastic finite element analysis.
  利用新近完成的粘弹塑构造模拟软件包对盆地的动力学演化进行了一系列模拟。