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中文： 上

1. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity. · I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.· Shoots grow up and roots grow down.
2. To or at a physically higher or more elevated position. · All day we climbed up and up.· Lift the carpet up and look underneath.
3. To an upright or erect position. · sit up; stand up; get up out of bed
4. To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc. (figuratively) · Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.· Turn it up, I can barely hear it.
5. To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher. · Go back up to the top of the page.· As I lay on my back, a pain shot up from my toes to my chest.
6. To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps). · I live in Florida, but I'm going up to New York to visit my family this weekend.
7. Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as ‘up’ by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change. · We travelled from Yorkshire up to London.· I'm going up to the other end of town.
8. Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.