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

• In view of the problem that sheet pile structures are only suitable for medium and small wharfs, Which has long been besetting the field of marine construction, semi-covered and whole covered sheep pile wharf structures have been researched and developed.
  针对板桩结构型式仅适用于中小码头建设这一长期困扰水运工程界的课题，研究开发了半遮帘式和全遮帘式板桩码头结构型式。
• 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。
• Dick was a fine person, apart from his besetting sin-he drank too much.
  撇开他过分贪杯的恶习而言，迪克是个品行很好的人。
• The imbalance of Corporate Social Responsibility has become a serious social problem besetting the current social stability and social harmony.
  企业社会责任的失衡已经成为困扰当前我国社会稳定与社会和谐的社会问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Casting reflections on others is her besetting sin.
  她的恶习是爱说别人的坏话。