英语短语词组on/onto the defensive的释义、翻译、用法及例句-英语短语词组词典

短语	on/onto the defensive
释义	on/onto the deˈfensiveacting in a way that shows that you expect to be attacked or criticized; having to defend yourself处于防御姿态；处于戒备状态；采取守势Their questions about the money put her on the defensive.他们问到钱的问题时，她就警觉起来。Warnings of an enemy attack forced the troops onto the defensive.敌军显示出进攻的迹象，部队不得不进入戒备状态。
随便看	in years / days to come in your birthday suit in your cups in your dotage in your dreams in your eighties in your element in your face in your face; in yer face in your fifties in your forties in your heart (of hearts) in your hour of need in your hurry to do sth in your middle twenties / thirties etc in your mind's eye in your nineties in your (own) backyard in your own (good) time in your own good time in your own right in your own sweet time/way in your own sweet way / time in your own time in your seventies

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