【upon音标】 英[əˈpɒn] 美[əˈpɑ:n]
【单词释义】 upon是什么意思：
prep.在…上面；当…时候
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【upon形近词/近似词】
coupon n.优惠券；息票，通票
weapon n.武器，兵器；凶器；手段，工具 vi.武装，提供武器
【常用短语】
act on/upon sth 根据…行事
draw upon 凭借；利用；动用
insist on/upon sth 坚决要求
once upon a time 从前，很久以前
【单词例句】
◇ Once upon a time there was a clever, wily peasant, whose tricks could be much talked about. The best story, however, is how he once got the best of the devil and made a fool of him.
从前有位远见卓识、机智聪明的农夫，有关他足智多谋的故事至今人们仍广为传颂。其中最精彩的要首推他曾经怎样捉弄魔鬼的故事。
---- The Peasant and the Devil
◇ They set out. He walked ahead while the snails followed, pulling the fig leaf with the frog upon it.
他们出发了，他在前边走着，而蜗牛拉着树叶上的青蛙在后面跟着。
---- The Prince Who Married a Frog
◇ Once upon a time there was an old goat. She had seven little kids, and loved them all, just as a mother loves her children.
从前有只老山羊。它生了七只小山羊，并且像所有母亲爱孩子一样爱它们。
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head,when she fell into the following train of reflections.
一个村姑头上顶着一罐牛奶在路上行走。走着走着，她的脑子里浮现出一连串的幻想：
---- The country Maid and Her Milk Can
◇ I would like to go back to school so that I can become economically independent, support myself, and if need be, support those dependent upon me, I want a wife who will work and send me to school.
我想重返校园，学成后经济独立，养家糊口，自食其力。我想要个妻。她工作，我镀金。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ Once upon a time a wolf was lapping at a stream. When he looked up, he saw a lamb drinking a little lower down.
从前，一只狼在溪边喝水，看到一只小羊在溪的下游喝水。
◇ Born in a pigs’ nest, Lina led a poor life in her childhood. She was looked down upon by the children of her generation.
丽娜出生在猪圈里，童年过着贫穷的生活，被和她同辈的孩子看不起。
---- A Woman Doctor-Lina
◇ And she thought only of them as the clergyman laid his hand upon her head, and spoke of the holy baptism, of the covenant with God, and how she should be now a matured Christian;
牧师把手搁在她的头上，讲着神圣的洗礼、她与上帝的誓约以及当一个基督徒的责任，正在这时候，她心中只想着她的这双鞋。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
于是她取出二十床垫子，把它们压在三粒豌豆上。随后，她又在这些垫子上放了二十床鸭绒被。
---- The Real Princess
◇ When he was placed on the chair, he jumped upon the table and said, "Now, push your little golden plate nearer, and we will eat together."
当它被放到椅子上时，它跳到桌子上说：“现在，把你的小金盘推近一点，我们一起来吃东西。”
---- The Frog Prince