upward mobility

基本解释

• 上进心；向上倾向

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Greater income inequality stifles upward mobility between generations, making it harder for talented and hard-working people to get the rewards they deserve.
  收入差距扩大会抑制一代代人之间的上升流动性，让勤奋而有才能的人更难以得到应得的回报。
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• Lincoln was not just content to be a personal example of upward mobility—born, in the poet James Russell Lowell’s phrase, “out of the very earth, unancestried, unprivileged, unknown”.
  林肯本人不仅仅满足于成为一个有上进心的绝佳代表。 诗人詹姆斯•洛厄尔曾说，他“自尘埃中诞生，无祖辈之荫庇，无凌人之威权，无赫赫之显名”。
• MORE than any other country, America defines itself by a collective dream: the dream of economic opportunity and upward mobility.
  美国在世界上以拥有一个共同梦想自居：经济机会和向上层流动的机会。

权威例句

• He is working on a study on upward mobility in global cities for the London-based Legatum Institute.
  FORBES: It's A Mall World After All
• Traditionally, the middle class has supported meritocracy and upward mobility, more than the elite has done.
  ECONOMIST: Beyond Wisteria Lane
• They want to see continuing and stable economic growth and opportunities for upward mobility.
  FORBES: The Chinese Middle Class View of the Leadership Transition

词组短语

短语

• upward -mobility 上进心
• upward social mobility 向上社会流动
• Optimistic upward mobility 乐观上进
• upward mobility detail 上升流动性

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• the movement of an individual, social group, or class to a position of increased status or power &rarrcompare downward mobility

专业释义

历史学

• 上行流动

法学

• 向上流动

  At present, social members' mobility is happening with increasing frequency and the desire of upward mobility is becoming stronger and stronger.
  社会成员的流动频率逐步加快,向上流动的意愿日趋强烈。