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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.--Dale Carnegie
請記住，幸福不在于你是誰或者你擁有什么，而僅僅取決于你的心態(tài)！
He was holding a cloth that dripped pink drops upon the floor.
他正拿著一塊布，布上粉紅色的水滴落在地板上。
I imagined the eyes of the others in the room upon me.
我覺得屋里其他人似乎都在盯著我。
We insist upon a definite answer.
我們一定要得到一個肯定的答復(fù).
As we turned the corner , we came upon a group of men who were waiting for the public house to open.
我們轉(zhuǎn)過屋角時碰到一群人等著店開門.

If one thing is upon another, it is on it.
You use upon when mentioning an event that is followed immediately by another event.
You use upon between two occurrences of the same noun in order to say that there are large numbers of the thing mentioned.
If an event is upon you, it is just about to happen.