【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】
weapon n.武器，兵器；凶器；手段，工具 vi.武装，提供武器
coupon n.优惠券；息票，通票
【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 sweet little girl. Everyone who saw her liked her, but most of all her grandmother, who did not know what to give the child next.
从前有个可爱的小姑娘，谁见了都喜欢，但最喜欢她的是她的奶奶，简直是她要甚么就给她甚么。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ There once lived a cute lovable girl named Cinderella. But one day a misfortune came upon her. Cinderella's mother was ill and soon died. Every day Cinderella cried so sadly.
很久以前，有一个可爱的小女孩名叫灰姑娘。但有一天，不幸降临在她身上。灰姑娘的母亲病了，很快便去世了。灰姑娘每天都哭得很伤心。
---- Cinderella
◇ One of the slippers she could not find, and a boy seized upon the other and ran away with it, saying that he could use it as a cradle, when he had children of his own.
一只怎么也找不到了，另一只被一个小男孩抢跑了，并说等将来他有了孩子要为他做摇篮。
◇ As she looked in the glass, she asked: "Tell me, glass upon the wall, who is most beautiful of all?"
当她照镜子的时候，她问:“告诉我，墙上的魔镜，谁是世界上最漂亮的人?”
---- Snow White
◇ Once upon a time there were a king and a queen. They lived happily together and had twelve children, all boys.
从前有一个国王和一个王后，他们幸福地生活在一起，并且生了十二个孩子，可这十二个孩子全是男孩。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ 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
◇ 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
◇ 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
◇ 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
◇ 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。