up sticks

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing. Ireland,UK,slang
  2. To prepare to move; to pack up; to go and live in a different place. Ireland,UK,colloquial,figuratively
    — Both of these conquered more and more of India, till at length the Rajput city of Delhi was captured, and then the disgusted Rajputs ‘upped sticks’ and fled before Islam and the Turk, and finally settled amid the inaccessible mountains and jungles and occasional fertile valleys of what is known as Rajputana or Rajasthan.

词形变化

ups sticks present,singular,third-person upping sticks participle,present upped sticks participle,past upped sticks past up stick alternative

词汇关系

相关词
pull up stakes

词源

up + sticks, plural of stick (“a mast or part of a mast of a ship; a yard”).
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