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

• He cited a study by the Swedish board of trade that up to 80 per cent of the value added in production of shoes took place in Europe, where they are designed and marketed.
  他援引瑞典贸易署（SwedishBoardofTrade）一项研究表示，鞋业生产中高达80%的附加值是在欧洲创造的，欧洲是鞋的设计方与销售市场。
• If trade looks up we may be able to have the shop painted next year.
  假如生意景况有所改善的话，明年我们就能够将店铺重新漆一次了。
• If you're doing a snail mail survey, trade up a bit: Anything that distinguishes the survey from direct marketing will increase your success rate.
  如果你在做一个平信调查，贸易平信了一点：什么区别调查从直接营销将增加你的成功率。
• First-time buyers saw them as a way to get onto the housing ladder, perhaps hoping to trade up to a house later.
  首次购房者视公寓为跻身屋主阶级的捷径，或许他们还计划着几年后把公寓换成独栋住宅。
• Today, cooperation between our two countries has become the engine driving China-EU cooperation, with China-Germany trade taking up roughly 30 percent of Chinas total trade with Europe.
  目前，中德合作已成为中欧合作的龙头，双方贸易额占到中欧贸易总额的30%左右。
• 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。
• Since inter-eurozone trade makes up two-thirds of German exports, the incremental benefits of exporting outside the eurozone are no longer covering the loss in trade from Europe.
  由于欧元区贸易占德国出口的三分之二，德国对非欧元区的出口增长不足以弥补欧元区内部贸易的下降。
• I doubt they ( the Chinese) will send any gunboats around to "open" trade up.
  我不信他们（中国人）会到处派遣炮艇去“开发”贸易。
• 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。
• The impact of drought, weak foreign demand, and strong import demand pushed the trade deficit up from$ 8 billion in2002, to$ 18 billion in2003, and to$ 13 billion in2004.
  干旱的影响、微薄的外需，强有力的进口需要将贸易赤字从2002年的80亿推向到2003年的180亿，而2004年则增加至130亿。