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

• 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。
• It's one of the most difficult problems besetting our modern way of life.
  那是困扰我们现代生活方式的一个最棘手的问题。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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；
• But the designers of this strategic approach failed to fully consider the extreme polarization besetting our political system.
  但这个策略的设计者并没有充分考虑到困扰美国政治系统的极端两极化现象。
• His besetting sin is laziness.
  他所易犯的毛病就是懒惰。
• The economic realities besetting the inner city.
  困扰城市中心区的经济现状。
• 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。