upend意为“竖立、倒放、颠倒”( to push or move something so that the part which usually touches the ground does so no longer),常用来表示“巨大的改变”,“颠覆”一个行业的常规或现状。
1)翻译
科技已经颠覆了出版业
The publishing industry has been upended by science and technology.
2)场景
台风山竹强势登陆广东省
The Typhoon Mangkhut. are upending operations at Guangdong Province。
多年来,他们都在试图推翻男女不平等的认知
For all the years, they had worked to upend this thinking that women are not equal to men.
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