upmanship在英语中代表‘高人一等的作风’的意思,在日常中也代表’高人一等的作风’的意思,读音为[‘?pm?n?ip],在英语中以名词出现较多,在《实用英语词典》中,共找到61个与upmanship相关的释义和例句。
1.高人一等的作风
例句:There is now a kind of sleep deprivation one-upmanship.
翻译:(笑声) 现在有一种睡眠不足 叫做“虚荣心作祟”。
来源:新英汉词典(第3版)
2.高人一等的作风
例句:He was brash, irreverent — he was full of macho, a kind of macho one-upmanship.
翻译:他性情急躁,无礼– 他极其好斗, 总能超越他的竞争者。
来源:英语汉语大辞典
upmanship一般作为名词使用,如在one upmanship([体]高人一等)等常见短语中出现较多。
one upmanship[体]高人一等1. There was a bit of an upmanship going on between the Americans and the Russians bringing bits to that exhibition.
翻译:那段时间美俄的竞争还在继续, 为那场展览带来了一些噱头。
2. He was full of macho, a kind of macho one-upmanship.
翻译:他极其好斗, 总能超越他的竞争者。
3. Our economic setup encourages one upmanship, competition, and comparison where as the progress the humans have made over millenia has been largely based on co-operation.
翻译:我们的经济体制鼓励出人头地 竞争和超越 然而人类几千年来的文明进步 更多是建立于合作的基础上。
4. (Laughter) There is now a kind of sleep deprivation one-upmanship.
翻译:(笑声) 现在有一种睡眠不足 叫做“虚荣心作祟”。