听声词典

put-upon

P 开头单词

基本解释

  • adj. 被占去便宜的；受人利用的；受虐待的；受愚弄的

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • The consoling thought for Ireland’s put-upon taxpayers has been “at least we’re not Iceland”, whose outsize banks failed spectacularly in 2008.
    那些被利用的爱尔兰纳税人只能自我安慰的想，“至少我们不是冰岛”。 2008年，爱尔兰特大型银行惨遭破产。
  • 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.
    其所需费用来源将出自：对未为员工投保的企业征加的税收，对医院征加的税收，而更多的税款则是来自那些偷税漏税的企业集团和吸烟人员。
  • 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.
    然而对于那些受雇于美国，迫于无奈才设计美国大使馆的建筑师来说，他们可没这样的好运：他们经常因为本国政府和东道主国家施加的种种新限制而苦恼不已。

    • 权威例句

  • 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

    短语

  • Put your make -up on 化好妆
  • put on make -up 化装
  • to put on make -up 打扮;化妆
  • nto put on make -up 化妆

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.