upended

1. VERB 使倒立；倒放；颠倒
   If you upend something, you turn it upside down.
   1. He upended the beer, and swallowed.
      他举起啤酒，一饮而尽。
   2. ...upended flower pots.
      倒扣着的花盆

1. He upended the beer, and swallowed.
   他举起啤酒，一饮而尽。
2. But now his world has been upended.
   但是，现在他的世界彻底被颠覆了。
3. Still, there have been times when her workday was upended by a sick child.
   尽管如此，有时她的工作日还是会因为孩子生病而被弄得一团乱。
4. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have upended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.
   一些经济学家认为世界经济结构的强有力的变化已经结束了那个以经济增长和通货膨胀的历史关联为基础的旧的经济模式。
5. At Princeton, Nash published a 27-page thesis that upended the field of game theory and led to applications in economics, international politics, and evolutionary biology.
   在普林斯顿，纳什一篇27页的论文颠覆了博弈论领域，博弈论此后被广泛应用于经济学、国际政治以及进化生物学领域。
6. Just as significantly, the convulsions in the Middle East and North Africa have laid bare deep divisions within societies, as an old order is upended and people grapple with what comes next.
   同样重要的是，在旧秩序被颠覆和人们需要把握随后出现的局面之际，中东和北非的动荡暴露了社会内部的严重分裂。
7. In a strategic blunder, it shifted its focus from smartphones back to basic phones right as the iPhone upended the market.
   就在iPhone颠覆市场的时候，诺基亚把重心从智能手机移回到基本款手机上面，犯下了战略错误。
8. And Sundance Channel's 'The Returned,' a French supernatural drama based on a 2004 film, upended the traditional zombie category with its meditative pacing and focus on human connections over bloodthirsty monsters.
   SundanceChannel的《亡者归来》是一部改编自2004年电影的法国超自然剧集，凭借其引人深思的剧情推进速度和专注于人类关系而非嗜血怪物的主题颠覆了传统僵尸片。
9. Or as they put it: With more discontinuity and volatility and with long-term charts no longer looking like smooth upward curves, long-held assumptions giving way, and seemingly powerful business models becoming upended.
   用这些顾问们的话说：随着出现更多的不连续性和波动性、长期图表不再呈现为平滑上升的曲线，长期成立的假设将不再有效，看似强大的商业模式也将被颠覆。
10. More specifically, three trends will shape this volatile, discontinuous, upended future.
    更具体地说，三个趋势将决定这一不稳定、不连续和被颠覆的未来。
11. The shooting upended a busy day in the capital and paralyzed much of the city.
    枪击案扰乱了渥太华繁忙的日程，使得城里大片地区陷入瘫痪。
12. If that view is right, there is a stark parallel with the US property market collapse that heralded the start of the 2008 global financial crisis& and upended banks along the way.
    如果这个观点是正确的，那么现在的形势与美国房地产市场的崩盘极为相似，那次崩盘为2008年全球金融危机拉开了序幕，并在这一过程中重创银行业。
13. His Labor Party's hold on power in Australia was upended by internal disputes and voter weariness.
    在澳大利亚，他领导的工党（LaborParty）的执政地位被内部纷争和选民的不满推翻。
14. By breaking and entering Iraq, the coalition of the willing also upended the balance of power in the most combustible region in the world.
    意愿联盟（coalitionofthewilling）入侵伊拉克，还颠覆了世界上最易燃地区的力量平衡。
15. The educational infrastructure must be upended to underpin support for the creative jobs that will be more or less the sole basis for employment, economic growth and wealth creation.
    必须从根本上改变教育基础设施，以加强对创造性工作岗位的支持，这些岗位多少将成为就业、经济增长和财富创造的唯一基石。
16. Houses are flooded, power has failed and transport completely upended.
    房屋被洪水淹没，电力供应中断，交通全面暂停。
17. This cautious policy, though, could easily be upended if events in Iran were to turn bloodier still.
    然而，如果暴力事件升级的话，美国这种谨慎的政策，很可能会使伊朗雪上加霜。
18. The California-based company has previously upended industries from music to mobile phones and, with other prominent technology companies such as Google and Facebook, is considered a threat by the biggest US banks.
    此前，这家总部驻加州的企业曾颠覆了从音乐到移动电话在内的诸多产业。如今，它正与谷歌（Google）和Facebook等著名高科技企业一道，被美国最大银行视为一大威胁。
19. He said doctors believe some treatments have obvious benefits, but recently a series of studies like this one have upended conventional wisdom.
    他说医生都相信一些治疗有明显的好处，但最近一系列的这类研究颠覆了传统的看法。
20. At the Green Fork, he had fought in mismatched scraps of plate from Lord Lefford's wagons, with a spiked bucket helm that made it look as if someone had upended a slops pail over his head.
    在绿叉河，他战斗时穿的是一身从莱佛德大人的货车里找到的不合身的破铠甲和一个锥顶的看起来像有人扣了个马桶在他头上的水桶盔。
21. She upended the chessboard halfway through the game because she was losing.
    她棋下到一半时推翻了棋盘，因为她要输了。
22. He took the lid off the cylinder, and upended the pail into the boiling bouillon.
    他把盖子从圆筒上拿掉，把一桶鱼都倒进了沸腾的汤里。
23. A hard tockle upended him just as he was about to score.
    正当他准备进球时一次猛烈的擒抱推倒了他。
24. The bicycle lay upended in a ditch.
    自行车翻倒在一条小水沟里。
25. Far off hangs the cataract, a stream upended;
    遥看瀑布挂前川。
26. Raab walks over to a steel vacuum chamber as big as an upended van.
    拉布走向一间钢制的真空室，看起来好像竖立的厢型货车。
27. With a little help from demography, the visceral desire for individual freedom and human dignity has upended once impregnable regimes.
    这些民众内心深处对个人自由和人类尊严的渴望，推翻了曾经坚不可摧的政权&在这方面，人口结构也起到了少许积极作用。
28. In1984, he again upended computing by leading the development of the Macintosh, the first commercially successful computer to use a mouse and graphical user interface.
    1984年，他领导的第一个商业成功的电脑使用鼠标和图形用户界面的Macintosh的发展，再次颠覆了计算。

adj

1. turned up on end