above ground

介词短语
中文释义
美 /əˈbʌvˌɡɹaʊnd/

英文释义

介词短语
  1. On or above the surface of the ground.
    — "This place Rome? It is but the tomb of mighty Rome." He showed Gerard . . . the gigantic vestiges of antiquity that peeped aboveground here and there.
  2. Not dead and buried; alive. figuratively
    — Alice: I told you, he don't have no wife, not aboveground, anyhow.
  3. Not of or relating to the social or political underground; in the open; existing within or produced by the establishment.
    — More disturbing was that zines and underground culture didn't seem to be any sort of threat to this aboveground world.

词汇关系

反义词
belowground underground

词源

From above + ground.
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