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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It's has been a controversy of the definition of assisted suicide which has been besetting the theoretical and judicial circles.
  帮助自杀的定性是一个争议已久的问题，一直困扰着理论界和司法界。
• Despite the economic turmoil besetting the region, the Hong Kong SAR government has been able to introduce a range of new tax concessions and lower taxes for individuals and corporations.
  尽管区内饱受金融风暴困扰，香港特区政府仍能实施多项新的税项宽减，以及调低个人和公司的税款。
• 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。
• 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 crisis currently besetting the car industry.
  最近困扰着汽车工业的危机。
• Casting reflections on others is her besetting sin.
  她的恶习是爱说别人的坏话。
• Or will she end up being crushed by the bureaucracy and the policy nightmares besetting the west and the IMF?
  抑或，官僚体系以及困扰着西方和IMF的政策噩梦，最终会击垮她？