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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I forgot all else, I shunned all the world, I gazed in rapt contemplation at the image I had set upon the altar.
  我忘掉一切，我躲避大千世界，我神注目夺地凝视着我安放在龛里的偶像。
• In this paper, the effects of the intersection of the classical error set upon the field are specially discussed on the basis of Operation of intersection classical error set.
  在《经典错误集并运算对论域的影响》一文基础上，本文专门研究了经典错误集的交运算对论域的影响。
• Sino-American relations can be highly improved if the two leaders will be set upon cooperation.
  假如两国领袖决心合作，中美关系将会大大的改进。
• After dinner, he told this story: Three days out of Zans, he was set upon by wild nomads.
  吃完饭，他讲了他的故事：离开赞斯三天后，他遭到了野蛮的游牧人的袭击。
• 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？