put-upon
基本解释
- adj. 被佔去便宜的；受人利用的；受虐待的；受愚弄的
英汉例句
- 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。 - 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
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- 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
短語
英英字典
- If you are put-upon, you are treated badly by someone who takes advantage of your willingness to help them.