set upon

英 [set əˈpɒn]

美 [set əˈpɑːn]

突然攻击; 袭击

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 突然攻击;袭击
  If youare set uponby people, they make a sudden and unexpected physical attack on you.
  1. We were set upon by about twelve youths and I was kicked unconscious.
     我们遭到了大约 12 名青年的袭击，我被踢晕过去了。

双语例句

• This brutal regulation will be set upon by lawyers.
  这一粗暴的规章将受到律师们的猛烈攻击。
• We were set upon by a band of robbers.
  我们遭到了一帮强盗的袭击。
• His mind was now set upon the dollar problem; this was grim indeed.
  他现在把全部心思都用来考虑美元问题；这的确是一个困难的问题。
• Now you have come to the end of your journey, and are set upon making good any karma you may have outstanding.
  现在你们已经来到了你们的旅程的尽头，正开始补偿任何你们可能拥有的未解决的业力。
• In running a race the eye and heart are ever set upon the goal and the prize.
  在竞赛场上，我们定睛于目标，为要得著奖赏；
• In 1991 he and his friends defended themselves against some white racist thugs who set upon them for no other reason than their skin colour.
  1991年，他和朋友在面对几个仅仅因为肤色就攻击他们的白人种族主义暴徒时奋起自卫。
• Temperature control range is set upon requirement at discretion.
  温控范围可根据用户需要自由设定。
• It showed how long Paul's childish life had been to him, and how his hopes were set upon a later stage of his existence.
  它表明，保罗的童年生活对他是显得多么长久，同时他的希望是怎样寄托在他生命的较后阶段的。
• If a child is set upon by a pack of hounds, does it matter which one tears out his throat?
  若一个孩子被一群猎狗袭击，是哪一个撕烂了他的喉咙又有什么不同？
• But my feet are set upon a road that I must follow.
  但我的腿定要踏上该走的路。