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

• 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 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。
• 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%；
• Mr Saunders believes this is representative of many middle-class shoppers who have been proud to display cheap goods from chains such as Primark, but are now preparing to "trade up".
  尼尔桑德斯认为这种态度在中产消费者中具有代表性，这些买家曾经骄傲的展示自己从primark买来的便宜衣物，但现在则愿意“上一个档次”。
• The homeowner wants to trade up. The old man was tossed out of the house because the owner wanted to pull it down.
  房主想把旧屋折价换新房子。因为房主要拆房子，这老头被赶了出来。
• 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。
• 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。
• Here the certainty has been that the property market goes up, trade goes up and horses race on Wednesdays and Sundays.
  这里说的稳定，是指楼市上涨，交易畅旺，每周三和周日照常举行骞马。
• 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。
• 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。