vt. (upset; -setting) 1.推翻，颠覆；弄翻，打翻。 2.搅乱，打破(计划)；(体育比赛、政党竞选等中)意外地击败(被认为强悍的对手)。 3.使狼狈，使烦乱；使(胸口、肚子等)不舒服。 4.【机械工程】缩锻，顿锻；顿粗；压缩(车轮内径)。 短语和例子 upset a glass of wine 弄翻一杯酒。 A boat was upset. 一条船(被风)吹翻了。 upset sb.'s plan 打乱某人的计划。 upset a room 把房间弄乱。 vi. 翻倒，颠覆。 upset sb.'s apple cart 打乱某人的计划。 upset the dope 〔美俚〕(形势大变)使预测[打算]落空。 n. 1.倾覆，翻倒；颠覆。 2.心乱，烦乱，混乱。 3.不和，吵架。 4.意外的失败。 5.【机械工程】缩锻；缩锻过的金属棒的粗大部分；缩锻用陷型模。 adj. 1.被推翻[弄翻]了的；混乱的；被挫败的。 2.心绪烦乱的。 3.固定的，一定的。
used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills'' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" 同义词：broken, confused, disordered,
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son''s leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children" 同义词：disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried,
having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket" 同义词：overturned, upturned,
mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"
disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team"
form metals with a swage 同义词：swage,
move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought" 同义词：disturb, trouble,
cause to lose one''s composure 同义词：discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit,
cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer" 同义词：overturn, tip over, turn over, knock over, bowl over, tump over,
an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath" 同义词：overturn,
the act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed" 同义词：overturn, turnover,
the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living" 同义词：derangement, overthrow,
a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging 同义词：swage,
a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" 同义词：disorder,
an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn''t realize the upset she caused me" 同义词：disturbance, perturbation,
An upset occurs in a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports, when the party popularly expected to win (the favorite), is defeated by an underdog whom the majority expects to lose, defying the conventional wisdom. The underdog then becomes a giant-killer.
例句与用法
1.
The news does not seem to upset him . 这个消息似乎并不叫他心烦意乱。
2.
This may upset the uniformity of burning . 这可能影响燃烧的均一性。
3.
That would upset the wage differential . 这样做会打乱工资级别制度。
4.
Her abandonment of the idea upset him . 她放弃了这一意见，他很不高兴。
5.
I hope this won't upset your arrangements . 我希望这不会打乱你的计划。
6.
She was badly upset by the sad news . 这一不幸的消息给了她很大的刺激。
7.
There's no sense in getting the boy too upset . 把孩子逼疯了没有好处。
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On the whole, the mood was upset . 总的看来，人们的心情是沮丧的。
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Her refusal to help quite upset the applecart . 她不肯帮忙使计划落空了。
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The inner distress would have so upset me . 精神上的苦恼将使我极为不安。
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