besetting

英 [bɪˈsetɪŋ]

美 [bɪˈsetɪŋ]

v.  困扰; 威胁
beset的现在分词

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柯林斯词典

The form beset is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle. beset的过去式和过去分词与原形相同。


• VERB 困扰；烦扰；使苦恼
  If someone or somethingis beset byproblems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
  1. The country is beset by severe economic problems.
     这个国家被严重的经济问题所困扰。
  2. The discussions were beset with difficulties.
     讨论困难重重。
  3. ...the problems now besetting the country.
     现在正困扰该国的问题

双语例句

• More specifically, he repeated a call he first uttered last year-namely that businesses and investors stop funding politicians, unless the politicians pledge to break the poisonous gridlock that is now besetting Washington.
  更确切地说，他是在重复去年首次提出的主张，即呼吁企业和投资者不再资助政客，除非他们承诺打破目前困扰美国政界的极其有害的僵局。
• The report does not address the serious worries now besetting the European financial sector, which result not from mistakes by bankers so much as blunders by European Union governments in the management of the euro.
  该报告没有解决如今正困扰欧洲金融业的严重担忧。从很大程度上说，这些担忧并非源于银行家的过失，而是源于欧盟（EU）各国政府在欧元管理方面的错误。
• They came at least once every year or so, mainly to help Uncle cope with his besetting loneliness.
  他们大约每年至少来一次，主要是来帮助舅舅排解不断袭来的孤独。
• Dick was a fine person, apart from his besetting sin-he drank too much.
  撇开他过分贪杯的恶习而言，迪克是个品行很好的人。
• I know he couldn't love a Linton; and yet he'd be quite capable of marrying your fortune and expectations! avarice is growing with him a besetting sin.
  我知道他不会爱上一个林惇家的人。但是他也很可能跟你的财产和继承财产的希望结婚的。
• But the designers of this strategic approach failed to fully consider the extreme polarization besetting our political system.
  但这个策略的设计者并没有充分考虑到困扰美国政治系统的极端两极化现象。
• Casting reflections on others is her besetting sin.
  她的恶习是爱说别人的坏话。
• A person of vivid imagination often suffers acutely from the imagined perils besetting friends, relatives, or even strangers such as celebrities.
  一个想象生动的人，常常苦于想象来的危险殃及亲友，甚至殃及名人。
• It's one of the most difficult problems besetting our modern way of life.
  那是困扰我们现代生活方式的一个最棘手的问题。
• Numerous problems that have been besetting Taiwan would be judiciously resolved within the framework of one china.
  原来一直困扰台湾的各种问题，都将在一个中国的架构下得到合理解决。