put-upon

常見例句

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只能自我安慰的想，“至少我們不是冰島”。 2008年，愛爾蘭特大型銀行慘遭破產(chǎn)。
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：對未為員工投保的企業(yè)征加的稅收，對醫(yī)院征加的稅收，而更多的稅款則是來自那些偷稅漏稅的企業(yè)集團和吸煙人員。
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.
然而對于那些受雇于美國，迫于無奈才設(shè)計美國大使館的建筑師來說，他們可沒這樣的好運：他們經(jīng)常因為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