up·ward /ˈʌpwɚ/
 (ad.)向上,往上(a.)向上的
 upward
 向上
 Up·ward Up·wards adv.
 1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.
    Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.   --Hooker.
 2. In the upper parts; above.
 Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
 And down ward fish.   --Milton.
 3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
    From twenty years old and upward.   --Num. i. 3.
 Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above.
 I have been your wife in this obedience
 Upward of twenty years.   --Shak.
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 Up·ward, a.  Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
 Up·ward, n. The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
    From the extremest upward of thy head.   --Shak.
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 upward
      adj 1: directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke
             of the pen"
      2: extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up
         staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn: up(a),
          upward(a)]
      adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher
             position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the
             fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards";
             "upwardly mobile" [syn: up, upwards, upwardly]
             [ant: down, down, down, down]
      2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from
         childhood upward" [syn: up, upwards]