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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• China's foreign trade makes up a very small portion of the world's total.
  现在中国对外贸易额占世界贸易额的比例很小。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。