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

• Or set upon a golden bough to sing
  或者就镶在金树枝上歌唱
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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”。
• But my feet are set upon a road that I must follow.
  但我的腿定要踏上该走的路。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。