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。
• 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。
• The steel-plastic co-extrusion technology independently researched and developed by ABC Company has better solved the problem of product singularity and poor innovative ability that have been besetting the window and door industry for many years and yet cannot solve by itself.
  ABC公司自主研发的钢塑共挤出技术很好地解决了困扰门窗行业多年，而自身又不能解决的产品单一、创新能力差的问题；
• The crisis currently besetting the car industry.
  最近困扰着汽车工业的危机。
• Neither were they connected with fear: he was conscious of no fear. rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came;
  种种思想都与害怕无关；他丝毫不觉得害怕，它们只仿佛产生于一种奇怪的无法摆脱的欲望，想知道到时候该怎么办。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。