rest upon

基本解释

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to put the other somewat higher.
梯子上的横档从来不是用来休息的，只是为了在一只脚迈向更高处时，另一只脚可以有一个支撑。
The strength of a country does not rest upon economic development alone; it rests upon education, at least to the same extent.
一个国家的实力不只是取决于经济发展；它至少在相同的程度上有赖于其教育水平。
Too much architectural layering (especially before it is needed) makes design harder because you shift the foundation the design must rest upon.
太多的架构分层（特别是在需要之前）使得设计更为困难，因为您需要转换设计必须依赖的基础。

I believe the declaration that "all men are created equal" is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest;
And fairly soon into the conversation I demonstrated some principle that you've probably learned in your physics class having to do with an object at rest remaining at rest unless acted upon by a force.
很快，在交谈中,我就展示了一些原理,可能你们在物理课上学过,要使静止的物体保持静止,必须有外力作用。
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What makes the law surprising is that if I only gave you half the law, namely every body will remain at rest if it's not acted upon by a force, you will say, "That's fine. I accept that, because here's something, you leave it there, it doesn't move.
这条定律妙就妙在,如果只看定律的前半段,即,如果物体不受外力作用,将保持静止状态,你肯定会觉得,"这没什么,我能理解,因为你把一个物体放在那里,自己肯定不会动
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However, one thing that has not changed is that the security of America continues to rest upon the strength of our nuclear deterrent.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy