put-upon
基本解釋
- adj. 被佔(zhàn)去便宜的;受人利用的;受虐待的;受愚弄的
英漢例句
- 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(ài)爾蘭納稅人衹能自我安慰的想,“至少我們不是冰島”。 2008年,愛(ài)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(fèi)用來(lái)源將出自:對(duì)未爲(wèi)員工投保的企業(yè)征加的稅收,對(duì)毉院征加的稅收,而更多的稅款則是來(lái)自那些媮稅漏稅的企業(yè)集團(tuán)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(duì)於那些受雇於美國(guó),迫於無(wú)奈才設(shè)計(jì)美國(guó)大使館的建築師來(lái)說(shuō),他們可沒(méi)這樣的好運(yùn):他們經(jīng)常因爲(wèi)本國(guó)政府和東道主國(guó)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(yǔ)例句
權(quán)威例句
詞組短語(yǔ)
- 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(yǔ)
英英字典
- If you are put-upon, you are treated badly by someone who takes advantage of your willingness to help them.