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UPWARDS
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Traducere în limba română
upwards adverb
1. în sus;
the road runs upwards drumul merge în sus.
2. începând de la, din;
from 20 years upwards începând de la 20 de ani.
3. spre oraşul principal.
4. upwards of peste, mai mult de;
classes having upwards of forty pupils clase cu peste patruzeci de elevi.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I have a selfish pleasure in saying he has been called mad, or I should not have had the benefit of his society and advice for these last ten years and upwards—in fact, ever since your sister, Betsey Trotwood, disappointed me.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
In fact, I found out afterwards that Mr. Dick had been for upwards of ten years endeavouring to keep King Charles the First out of the Memorial; but he had been constantly getting into it, and was there now.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)