upheavals

英 [ʌpˈhiːvəlz]

美 [əpˈhivəlz]

n.  剧变; 激变; 动乱; 动荡
upheaval的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 激变；剧变；动乱
  Anupheavalis a big change which causes a lot of trouble, confusion, and worry.
  1. Wherever there is political upheaval, invariably there are refugees...
     哪里有政治动乱，哪里就一定有难民。
  2. Having a baby will mean the greatest upheaval in your life.
     有了孩子意味着你的生活要发生重大的变化。

双语例句

• After absorbing so many violent upheavals, indigestion seems to have set in.
  在吸纳了这么多的剧烈变化后，它们似乎开始出现了“消化不良”。
• 1789 was one of the great upheavals in history.
  年是历史上一个伟大的动荡的年代。
• Having lived through terrestrial upheavals, they have no appetite for the economic equivalent.
  已经经受着大自然的折磨了，他们可不想再忍受同等强度的经济动荡。
• That is why many mediocre employees survive violent corporate upheavals while people of great talent are being laid off.
  这就是为什么许多平平庸庸的公司雇员在大调整中保住了位置，而有才能的人反到下岗。
• The riots and political upheavals in Greece suggest what would happen elsewhere if the Brussels bureaucracy and German Chancellor came to dominate national economic policies.
  希腊的骚乱和政治动荡表明，如果欧盟官僚机构和德国总理主宰了各国经济政策，这些国家将会发生什么情况。
• But the upheavals can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic.
  但是这些骚乱能快速升级，变得非常可怕，甚至变成大灾难。
• Upheavals in the workplace can undermine employees 'sense of security, particularly if redundancy is not a one-off.
  工作场所的剧变会削弱员工的安全感，尤其是在裁员不是一次性的时候。
• This is impossible to measure precisely, particularly after recent upheavals.
  对此精确衡量是不可能的，尤其是在最近的动荡之后。
• Of course, there are also big differences between the upheavals around the world.
  当然，世界各地的动荡也存在着重大差别。
• They reviewed the international situation in which important changes and great upheavals are taking place and expounded their respective positions and attitudes.
  他们回顾了经历着重大变化和巨大动荡的国际形势，阐明了各自的立场和态度。