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

• 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。
• Then the glass coffin was set upon the mountain.
  然后玻璃棺材被安置在山顶上。
• But my feet are set upon a road that I must follow.
  但我的腿定要踏上该走的路。
• 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 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。
• The old woman set upon the thief as if mad.
  那个老妇人发疯似地扑向小偷。
• 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。
• 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！
• We were set upon by a band of robbers.
  我们遭到了一帮强盗的袭击。