beset

英 [bɪˈset]

美 [bɪˈset]

v.  困扰; 威胁

过去分词：beset　过去式：beset　第三人称单数：besets　现在分词：besetting　

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牛津词典

verb

• 困扰；威胁
  to affect sb/sth in an unpleasant or harmful way
  1. The team was beset by injury all season.
     这个队整个赛季都因队员受伤而受困扰。
  2. 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最棘手的其中一个问题。

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

• The ship was beset with ice.
  这船为冰所包围。
• The difficulties, pressures, temptations, etc that beset us all.
  缠绕着我们的困难，压力，诱惑等。
• Beset by ethnic strife, the province remains ungovernable
  该省因受种族冲突困扰而失控。
• The problems which beset us and threaten to destroy us.
  困扰着我们、使我们面临着毁灭威胁的问题。
• Social life is beset with disparities between others'perceptions of us and our reality.
  社会生活充满了别人对我们的看法和我们的实情之间的差距。
• Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds, this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
  今天，这个反动集团百孔千疮，内外交困，矛盾重重。
• More unemployment could stir new industrial unrest in a country already beset by social problems.
  更多的失业会在一个早已受社会问题困扰的国家激起新的工人骚乱。
• The voyage was beset with dangers.
  这次航程充满了危险。
• The country is beset by severe economic problems.
  这个国家被严重的经济问题所困扰。
• Every April I am beset by the same concern& that spring might not occur this year.
  每年的四月份，我都会被同样的担心所困扰，那就是这一年不会有春天了。