The city was walled and built upon a rock.

这座城有城墙围着，而且建在岩石上。

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Larger numbers are said to be built upon smaller numbers.

据说大数字是建立在小数字的基础上的。

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It overturned the rational tradition that had been built upon since the Renaissance.

它颠覆了自文艺复兴以来建立的理性传统。

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They said colonial policies violated important democratic ideas upon which the United States had been built.

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The idea of The Matrix is explicitly built upon Cartesian— Descartes' worries about an evil demon.

黑客帝国》的创意,完全基于笛卡尔的哲学,笛卡尔对于恶灵的忧虑

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And here it's all just tonic, just the basic primordial note upon which all these other tones are built.

在这里,最原始,最基本的音符,其它音符都基于基音而生

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Well, it's a battery-free capacitive and pressure-sensitive plastic pointing stick that's built upon Wacom technology.

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This country was built upon the service and sacrifice of men and women like you.

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It must be reinforced and built upon as a matter of the utmost national importance.

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