put on the defensive

基本解释

If you put people on the defensive, they’re much less likely to understand or embrace your choices.
如果你將人們置於防衛的狀態，他們將更不易去理解或接受你的選擇了。
This immediately put her on the defensive, and with one of those sudden impulses of reprisal to which she was liable she gave him a little push from her.
苔絲立即醒了，防範起來，她出於一種突然出現的報複沖動，沒有細想就輕輕地把他一推。
Put on the defensive by the FDA's seizure of e-cigarette shipments at U.S. borders, makers of these products have challenged in federal district court the agency's jurisdiction over this situation.
FDA在美國邊境繳獲了這些裝船的産品，生産商在聯邦區法院辯稱，FDA對此事的処理已經超越了它的權限。

In the short term, analyst David Gergen believes the outbursts at the town hall meetings have put the Obama administration on the defensive.

But it is the first time that the frontrunner was put on the defensive so often.
NPR: Clinton No Longer Unscathed Front-Runner
Every election cycle, candidates that endorse (or even say nice things about) the FAIR tax wind up getting attacked and put on the defensive.
FORBES: Is The FAIR Tax A Political Liability?
Put on the defensive, the government is reportedly seeking to modify portions of its petition that suggest it is favoring one brother over the other.
FORBES: The Ambani brothers are at it again.