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

• 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。
• 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；
• Or set upon a golden bough to sing
  或者就镶在金树枝上歌唱
• He is set upon by adversities; but he sings a song.
  逆境袭击他，但他却歌唱。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was set upon by two masked men.
  他受到两个蒙面人的袭击。
• Roll the dough out and place it on a baking pan with baking paper. Spread the apricot jam on top of it. The two boys frantically grabbed the rolling pin and the coal shovel and set upon their father.
  取出面团放到铺了烤纸的烤盘上，擀开，然后把果酱均匀的抹上。两个孩子急了，一个拿起煤铲，一个抄起擀面杖，和爸爸拚了命。
• The two boys frantically grabbed the rolling pin and the coal shovel and set upon their father.
  两个孩子急了，一个拿起煤铲，一个抄起擀面杖，和爸爸拚了命。