Men grow up in a world in which a conversation is often a contest, either to achieve the upper hand or to prevent other people from pushing them around.(在男人成長的世界里，交談時常是一種競爭，為了占據優勢，也為了防止被他人擺布。)

An economic centre in the upper reaches of Yangtze River, a new Chongqing, is striding towards the world with development!(一個長江上游經濟中心的新重慶正在開發中走向世界！)

The first plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower at 8:45, ripping through the building's skin and setting its upper floors ablaze.(第一架飛機于8:45撞擊了世貿中心北樓。飛機撕裂開這幢大廈后，在大廈上部燃起熊熊大火。)

A man jumps from the upper floors of the burning North Tower of New York's World Trade Center, on September 11, 2001. ap.(一個人從正在燃燒的北塔的更上部跳下。)

So much has changed in the world and rubbish is getting the upper hand.(世界改變了很多，文化垃圾也都升級了。)

While they were walking to the upper world, Orpheus became afraid that his wife was not behind him.(當他們走向陽間，奧菲斯開始擔心他的妻子沒跟在他后頭。)

"If you want to know how the world has warmed, you've got to look at the upper layers of the ocean, " Lyman said. "And it continues to warm."(因而里曼曾告訴人們：“如果你想要了解全球變暖的發展趨勢，那么你應該去關注一下海洋的表層水面，它的溫度依然在不斷攀升。”)

The wife of Orpheus, whom he failed to rescue from Hades when he looked back at her and so violated the command of Pluto on their journey back to the upper world of the living.(俄耳甫斯的妻子，沒能被丈夫救出地獄，因為他們在走出冥界之前他回頭看了妻子，違反了冥王的規定；)

Or if I can put the case for them slightly anachronistically, these are two sons of the upper bourgeois who feel degraded by the mendacity and hypocrisy of the world they see around them.(或如果我將他們，稍微錯置于其它時間，他們是上層中產階級的兩名兒子，他們覺得，因為虛偽和偽善而降尊了，因那充斥著他們周圍所見的世界。)

Then she applied to her old grandmother, who knew all about the upper world, which she very rightly called the lands above the sea.(她對于“上層世界”——這是她給海上國家所起的恰當的名字——的確知道得相當清楚。)