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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• The crisis currently besetting the car industry.
  最近困扰着汽车工业的危机。
• 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。
• The economic realities besetting the inner city.
  困扰城市中心区的经济现状。
• Integrity has become one of the problems besetting the industry.
  诚信成为困扰房地产业的难题之一。
• 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。