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.- 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。
- We were set upon by about twelve youths and I was kicked unconscious.
双语例句
- 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。 - They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord continually.
亚郎应把这些灯放在纯金台上,在上主面前长燃不熄。 - We were set upon by a band of robbers.
我们遭到了一帮强盗的袭击。 - He is set upon by adversities; but he sings a song.
逆境袭击他,但他却歌唱。 - The stars were set upon a blue field, in the words of the Congress's resolution," representing a new constellation "in the night sky.
据制宪会议解释,这些以一片蓝色为背景的星星“代表夜空中的一个新星座”。 - 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。 - However much your heart may be set upon a1930s rose-gold Rolex Bubbleback, you cannot go to your nearest dealer and order one as you would a Rolex DateJust.
不管你有多么想要得到一块30年代产的玫瑰金劳力士“Bubbleback”,你都不能像买劳力士“DateJust”那样找最近的经销商订购一块。 - When my sister was six years old, she was attacked, set upon, by three Muggle boys.
我妹妹六岁时,遭到三个麻瓜男孩的袭击。 - A truly quixotic landscape is seen in Salvador Dal í' s 1946 painting The Temptation of St. Anthony ( top right), which depicts a metropolis set upon the backs of animals.
萨尔瓦多·达利(SalvadorDalí)1946年的油画《圣安东尼的诱惑》(TheTemptationofSt.Anthony,右上)描绘了一个建在动物背上的大都市,那是真正的空想风景。 - 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?