Upper

(noun.) piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot; 'Uppers come in many styles'.

(adj.) higher in place or position; 'the upper bunk'; 'in the upper center of the picture'; 'the upper stories' .

(adj.) superior in rank or accomplishment; 'the upper half of the class' .

(adj.) the topmost one of two .

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• In the sights were parallel slits, right, left, upper, lower. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He sat down, a little disconcerted by my presence, I thought, and without looking at me, drew his heavy sunburnt hand across and across his upper lip. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He covered with his hand the upper part of his face, but did not conceal his mouth, where I saw hovering an expression I liked. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Miss Lucas perceived him from an upper window as he walked towards the house, and instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• They come to a building in the yard with an office on an upper floor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Near this stand-pipe in the upper story is placed a water supply tank. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She found in an upper-class official, Calonne, her ideal minister of finance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He could hear laughter in the upper rooms. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The sheets of rubber from which the uppers and soles are cut are at this stage of the work plastic and very sticky. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Cheap shoes could only be made by roughly fastening the soles to the uppers by wooden pegs, whose row of projecting points within has made many a man and boy do unnecessary penance. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The uppers are cut by hand from the engraved sheets, while metal patterns are used on the plain stock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These and other machines complete the soles and heels, which are finally sent to the making or bottoming room, where the completed shoe uppers await them. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In 1809, David Mead Randolph of England patented machinery for riveting soles and heels to the uppers instead of sewing them together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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