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

• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• If you want to, you can now set upon exploring environments that are not physical, but I do not see any rush of students at that invisible door!
  如果你想要，你现在就可以探索非物质的环境，但我并未看到有哪个学生冲向那扇看不见的门！
• 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。
• 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 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。