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 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。
• Finally, the relations of composition with heat state of the upper crust were analysed.
  最后对区域上地壳成份、热状态与成矿的关系进行了探讨。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。