upper hand

基本解釋

This works, even if you don’t have the upper hand and you really need the job.
這方法挺管用，即使你不處于優(yōu)勢，并且你確實需要這份工作。
With a lithium shortage forecast for 2015, Bolivia may also have the upper hand.
鑒于預測到2015年鋰將發(fā)生短缺，玻利維亞或許也有優(yōu)勢。
If cyberarms-control is to America’s advantage, it would be wise to shape such accords while it still has the upper hand in cyberspace.
如果網(wǎng)絡武器限制對美國而言是有益的，那么當它在網(wǎng)絡空間還有優(yōu)勢的情況下，促成這種和睦將是明智的。

And so I think they are concerned that on national security the Republicans could get the upper hand and hurt Obama politically."
That would be tantamount to creating divine enemies, immortal enemies So God must maintain the upper hand in his struggle with these humans who have learned to defy him. And he maintains the upper hand in this, the fact that they eventually must die.
因為，這相當于創(chuàng)造了一個，旗鼓相當，永生的敵人,所以，上帝在與，這些學會反抗他的人類爭斗時,占了上峰，利用他的優(yōu)勢,決定了人類必將死亡的命運。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節(jié)選
Continuing to page 1004, the upper right-hand column: xpectations"--this word is what Iser thinks governs the sort of dialectic that the reading process is playing with.
接著看1004頁，右上角一欄：,“期望“，伊瑟爾認為正是這個詞，“…,支配著閱讀過程中的對立。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節(jié)選

They do think that they are getting the upper hand on the fire right now.
NPR: L.A. Fires Force Evacuation of Park, Zoo