put-upon

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

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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

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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

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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.

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