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

• His besetting sin is laziness.
  他所易犯的毛病就是懒惰。
• National interests contradictions conceal the dangers of the arms race and regional conflicts, the security dilemma is besetting national security in Northeast Asia.
  各国利益的矛盾掩藏着军备竞赛和地区冲突的危险，安全困境的幽灵困扰着东北亚地区各国的国家安全。
• 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。
• Casting reflections on others is her besetting sin.
  她的恶习是爱说别人的坏话。
• Linked poverty and unemployment to the social unrest Besetting the city.
  把使城市陷入困境的社会骚乱与贫困失业联系起来。
• Or the continued problems besetting the computers used for welfare payments in the UK-not to mention the glitches that have beset many western banks, such as Royal Bank of Scotland.
  或者还有问题不断的英国福利金支付系统的电脑&更不用提包括苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）在内的许多西方银行连绵不断的故障了。
• Perhaps one of the other problems besetting management writers is the difficulty they have, if they are being honest, in making confident claims about how businesses function in practice, and how and why they succeed or fail.
  其它困扰管理类作家的一个问题可能是，如果他们保持诚实，那么对于企业如何在实践中有效运作，企业如何成功、为何失败等，他们将难以拿出自信的主张。
• 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 imbalance of Corporate Social Responsibility has become a serious social problem besetting the current social stability and social harmony.
  企业社会责任的失衡已经成为困扰当前我国社会稳定与社会和谐的社会问题。
• 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。