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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• His besetting sin is laziness.
  他所易犯的毛病就是懒惰。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 economic realities besetting the inner city.
  困扰城市中心区的经济现状。
• 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。