Upper World

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.(在男人成长的世界里，交谈时常是一种竞争，为了占据优势，也为了防止被他人摆布。)

An economic centre in the upper reaches of Yangtze River, a new Chongqing, is striding towards the world with development!(一个长江上游经济中心的新重庆正在开发中走向世界！)

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.(第一架飞机于8:45撞击了世贸中心北楼。飞机撕裂开这幢大厦后，在大厦上部燃起熊熊大火。)

A man jumps from the upper floors of the burning North Tower of New York's World Trade Center, on September 11, 2001. ap.(一个人从正在燃烧的北塔的更上部跳下。)

So much has changed in the world and rubbish is getting the upper hand.(世界改变了很多，文化垃圾也都升级了。)

While they were walking to the upper world, Orpheus became afraid that his wife was not behind him.(当他们走向阳间，奥菲斯开始担心他的妻子没跟在他后头。)

"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."(因而里曼曾告诉人们：“如果你想要了解全球变暖的发展趋势，那么你应该去关注一下海洋的表层水面，它的温度依然在不断攀升。”)

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，没能被丈夫救出地狱，因为他们在走出冥界之前他回头看了妻子，违反了冥王的规定；)

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.(或如果我将他们，稍微错置于其它时间，他们是上层中产阶级的两名儿子，他们觉得，因为虚伪和伪善而降尊了，因那充斥着他们周围所见的世界。)

Then she applied to her old grandmother, who knew all about the upper world, which she very rightly called the lands above the sea.(她对于“上层世界”——这是她给海上国家所起的恰当的名字——的确知道得相当清楚。)