besetting

英 [bɪˈsetɪŋ]

美 [bɪˈsetɪŋ]

v.  困扰; 威胁
beset的现在分词

BNC.49220

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

• 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。
• The economic realities besetting the inner city.
  困扰城市中心区的经济现状。
• The crisis currently besetting the car industry.
  最近困扰着汽车工业的危机。
• His besetting sin is laziness.
  他所易犯的毛病就是懒惰。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。