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

• 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。
• I also feel there is something "upper crust" and refined about the sound of an English accent.
  对我来说，英式口音很典雅，流畅而有魅力。
• 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 building was originally constructed as a hotel for upper crust springs society, but has long since been converted into offices for lawyers, accountants and such.
  这栋楼本是为镇上上层人士盖的旅店，但早已被用作律师、会计师之类的办公楼。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 crust of Sichuan basin as a whole is highly resistant and no low-resistivity layer below the upper crust.
  四川盆地的地壳整体表现为高阻层，不存在地壳低阻层。