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

• Fine structures of the upper crust and velocity distributions down to 10 km deep are obtained.
  得到深度为10km范围的地壳浅层结构和速度分布。
• The tektite was formed from the upper crust rocks by impact melting.
  玻璃陨石是地壳岩石受撞击熔融形成的。
• The other is partial melting layer of the upper crust.
  而另一种认为是地壳中的部分熔融层。
• The mineral source was provided by both lower crust, upper mantle and upper crust, obviously from crust-mantle mixing.
  矿田中的成矿物质的不仅来自于下地壳和上地幔，而且还来自于上地壳，具有壳幔混合特征。
• Longitudinally, the upper crust structure in Jianghan-Dongting basins and their marginal orogenic belts does not change much, the middle and lower crust were generally transformed by modern tectonic activities, leading to certain changes in lithospheric structure.
  在纵向尺度上，江汉-洞庭盆地以及周缘造山带的上地壳结构变化不大，中地壳和下地壳则普遍受到现今构造活动的改造，以致岩石的结构发生了一定的变化。
• The metallogenic materials are mainly from the deep magmas and the rest from upper crust.
  成矿物质主要来源于深部岩浆，有部分地壳物质的加入。
• The previous researches indicate input of mantle material into upper crust during magmatism and ore-forming process.
  大量研究资料表明，区内成矿和成岩过程中有幔源物质的加入。
• 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
• Magnetotelluric studies of the San Andreas Fault in the United States have revealed a correlation between segments of the fault that are seismically active and the resistivity of the fault zone in the brittle upper crust.
  对美国圣安德烈斯断层的大地电磁研究已经揭示了地震比较活跃的断层区段和在脆性上地壳中的断裂带的电阻率之间的相关性。
• The mudstone bands of the lower beds are derived from a mixture of mantle, upper crust and ocean.
  下矿层泥岩条带铅同位素具地幔、上地壳和海源铅的混合特点。