1Situated or placed higher than the surrounding area.

这座旅馆位于村子的高处。

M4号高速公路的高架部分。

1. 1.1 (of a level or amount) higher or greater than normal.
   （含量）高的；（数量）多的
   an elevated temperature

   高温。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In a previous study Swan found that women who drank tap water with elevated levels of certain chlorination by-products had higher miscarriage rates.
   • The scientists who work for the United Nations have done some field study, and they have advised that at least eight sites be closed off because of elevated radiation levels.
   • Impulsively, he opened the oak barrier, and, with mouth hanging, he stared with amusement less than ever, and an elevated amount of disgruntlement and disbelief.
   • Not a raging fever by any means, but definitely an elevated temperature.
   • In Stubbs' case, his condition was discovered after some adverse results from a routine drugs test showed unusually elevated hormone levels.
   • Overwhelmingly, the cause of bleaching is solar irradiation and elevated sea water temperatures - both events linked to global warming.
   • This was attributed to the formation of elevated amounts of vesicular structures in the cytosol after exposure to LEF, which was also validated microscopically.
   • We find, in over 95% of these problem slabs, an elevated amount of purposeful air entrainment.
   • Fecundity is affected mainly by the time that lizards experience suitably elevated body temperatures that maximize the net rate of energy assimilation.
   • The infection causes a flu like sickness with elevated temperature, aches and pains, severe night sweats all leading to fatigue or exhaustion.
   • I have a sensation of an elevated temperature and a dry cough.
   • Although using Ecstasy has decreased for the first time since 1991 and its use perceived as a greater risk by the students, the rates of heavy or binge drinking have not declined and remain at an elevated level.
   • Conditions that promote hyphal growth in the laboratory include growth at elevated temperature in medium containing special components.
   • In elevated amounts, however, it can be toxic to tissues.
   • These physiological measurements showed that thermal Agrostis scabra species had superior tolerance to elevated soil temperatures.
   • Abundances of nine taxa varied significantly among transition zones and interiors of benthoscape elements, most with elevated abundances in transition zones.
   • Brisk walking for 30 to 45 minutes, swimming, jogging - all utilise blood sugar and help reduce elevated sugar levels.
   • An example of a thermochemical process for producing fuels using solar power involves thermally reducing a metal oxide at elevated temperatures using concentrated solar energy.
   • The simple fact of the matter is after 36 elevated samples ATP simply stopped counting.
   • Water replenishes the body's cooling system, enabling it to survive sweltering heat or elevated body temperature due to exercise.
2. 1.2 Of a high intellectual or moral level.
   （知识或道德水准）高尚的；高标准的
   the elevated canon of great literary texts

   文学名作中的高标准作品。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • If you feel you've been banned unfairly, just drop me a note and if you promise to keep the debate at a more elevated level, I'll be happy to unban you.

   Synonyms

   lofty, exalted, high, grand, fine, sublime

   inflated, pompous, bombastic, orotund

   rare fustian
3. 1.3 Having a high rank or social standing.
   职位（或社会地位）高的
   these parish gentry were conscious of their elevated status

   这些教区贵族们知道自己的尊贵地位。

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   • This elevated status doesn't stop Clare from patronising her.
   • As you can probably guess, I took it and have been enjoying my slightly elevated standing for the last few days.
   • Anyway, I know the mayor, despite his elevated status, is still happy to live in King William's Town.
   • By completing these courses or seminars, a citizen reporter could then receive some sort of elevated status when posting.
   • Thus ownership of such objects suggested one's elevated social status.
   • If not for me, you never would have fallen into such an elevated status.
   • They are seen (because they are) as corrupt officials using their elevated social status for political gain.
   • His elevated social status allowed him to speak out on issues in exactly the way that he saw fit, no matter what the consequences.
   • If national sides and the World Cup can resist the forces of avarice, however, then football can come to occupy a new and even more elevated position in the global imagination.
   • The Di Fiore family is likewise desperate as they watch their once opulent estate crumble around them and fear their elevated social status hangs in the balance.
   • In this way they participated in the long European tradition of commissioning portraits to commemorate themselves and to declare their elevated social status.
   • Alin was more rural town than city, but its strategic position may perhaps explain its elevated standing in the eyes of those who dwelt, soldiered, and plied commerce in the north of Brand.
   • Neither had immediate ambitions beyond retaining their elevated status and, with two weeks of the season remaining, both entered this game with that objective comfortably secured.
   • The ultimate goal of any aggressive encounter is to obtain an elevated social status that confers an advantage to an individual in obtaining a resource.
   • The man who once used to enjoy an elevated status in society only because he owned a ration shop is now overpowered by desperation.
   • If anyone can help to reawaken people's interest and support in Christianity, our new archbishop certainly can - and I wish him well in his new and elevated position.
   • In the two years since its foundation the club has made huge strides and is now one of the leading units of the organisation in the country, he added, saying it should be proud of its elevated status.
   • And while an elevated status would benefit practitioners, a coterie of design specialists may not be the best condition for culture or society.
   • In other words, it was the adoption or civilization process-by degrees-that advanced the adoptees to their elevated social ranks.
   • That is not to say that he has missed out on the benefits provided by the elevated status now accorded to chefs.

   Synonyms

   dignified, grand, lofty, noble, eminent, exalted, revered, august, great, high, higher, high/higher up, superior

   magnificent, sublime, inflated