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

• 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。
• 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。
• With the higher degree of globalization, the prevalence of counterfeiting is emerging as one of the most troublesome problems besetting an increasing number of industries and countries.
  随着经济全球化程度的提高，仿冒品的盛行成为越来越多产业与国家急需面对的问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• Or the continued problems besetting the computers used for welfare payments in the UK-not to mention the glitches that have beset many western banks, such as Royal Bank of Scotland.
  或者还有问题不断的英国福利金支付系统的电脑&更不用提包括苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）在内的许多西方银行连绵不断的故障了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。