trade up

英 [ˈtreɪd ʌp]

美 [ˈtreɪd ʌp]

变卖（旧物）换进同类中更贵的东西

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 变卖(旧物)换进同类中更贵的东西
  If someonetrades up, they sell something such as their car or their house and buy a more expensive one.
  1. Mini-car owners are trading up to 'real' cars...
     迷你车车主们正变卖旧车换进“真正的”汽车。
  2. Homeowners will feel more comfortable and they may feel ready to trade up.
     私房主会感到更安心，可能愿意变卖旧房购买更贵的房子。

双语例句

• As GDP rises, smokers trade up to more expensive brands.
  随着国内生产总值的上升，烟民们已经买得起更贵的牌子了。
• A wave of mainly Chinese deals met strong investor interest, helping a number of companies to trade up sharply in their first days and weeks.
  以中国内地企业为主的一波上市引发投资者强烈兴趣，多只新股在最初几天或几周大幅上涨。
• Jane has no common with her sister on avocation. Things will go much Better if people of the same trade make up the other's deficiency from their own surplus.
  就业余爱好而言，珍妮和她妹妹几乎没有什么共同之处。同行业之间互通有无，调剂余缺，事情就好办得多了。
• Both overall economic growth and trade picked up at first slowly, and then back to the pace of the 1990s boom years.
  整体经济增长和贸易都出现回升起初步伐缓慢，随后便恢复到上世纪90年代繁荣时期的水平。
• Things will go much Better if people of the same trade make up the other's deficiency from their own surplus.
  同行业之间互通有无，调剂余缺，事情就好办得多了。
• Makers of small cars have the added advantage, according to JD Power, of strong brand loyalty when owners trade up to a bigger model.
  JDPower称，当车主换购一种较大的车型时，小型车制造商还拥有一个额外的优势，即很强的品牌忠诚度。
• Colin Currie, Adidas head for greater China, says that, even in poorer cities, consumers are eager to trade up to foreign brands as their income rises.
  阿迪达斯大中华区负责人高嘉礼（ColinCurrie）表示，即便是在不那么富裕的城市，随着收入的增长，消费者也渴望提升消费档次，购买外国品牌的商品。
• The value of our house soared, enabling us to trade up to a larger place.
  我们这房屋的价值上扬，使得我们可以卖掉它购买一个更大的地方。
• Moreover, defying concerns that the ensuing security clampdown would throw sand in the wheels of globalisation, world trade picked up speed again until the global financial crisis of 2008.
  此外，当时人们曾担心，9/11后的严厉安全措施将妨碍全球化，但实际上世界贸易再度提速，直至2008年爆发全球金融危机。
• Of this total, the export of general trade was down by 4.8 percent, and that of manufacturing trade was up 4.9 percent.
  其中一般贸易出口下降4.8%，加工贸易出口增长4.9%；