果味酸柯林斯词典

put-upon

P 开头单词

基本解释

  • adj. 被佔去便宜的；受人利用的；受虐待的；受愚弄的

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • The consoling thought for Ireland’s put-upon taxpayers has been “at least we’re not Iceland”, whose outsize banks failed spectacularly in 2008.
    那些被利用的愛爾蘭納稅人衹能自我安慰的想，“至少我們不是冰島”。 2008年，愛爾蘭特大型銀行慘遭破産。
  • This will be paid for by a tax on businesses that fail to provide health insurance, a levy on hospitals and yet more taxes for that much put-upon group, smokers.
    其所需費用來源將出自：對未爲員工投保的企業征加的稅收，對毉院征加的稅收，而更多的稅款則是來自那些媮稅漏稅的企業集團和吸菸人員。
  • That is not true, however, of the put-upon architects who have to design America’s embassies: they are constantly being hit with new restrictions, from both their own government and the host country.
    然而對於那些受雇於美國，迫於無奈才設計美國大使館的建築師來說，他們可沒這樣的好運：他們經常因爲本國政府和東道主國家施加的種種新限制而苦惱不已。

    • 權威例句

  • Residents of the Empire State are now among the most put-upon taxpayers in the country.
    FORBES: Capital Idea
  • Put-upon frequent-flying business travelers can only applaud a lawsuit recently filed by Continental Chief Gordon Bethune.
    FORBES: Fact and Comment
  • Yet in recent years Pakistani cricket has become more representative of an increasingly conservative and put-upon society.
    ECONOMIST: Pakistan

词组短语

    短語

  • Put your make -up on 化好妝
  • put on make -up 化裝
  • to put on make -up 打扮;化妝
  • nto put on make -up 化妝

英英字典

    柯林斯英英字典

  • If you are put-upon, you are treated badly by someone who takes advantage of your willingness to help them.