| 词汇 | bedevil |
| 释义 | bedevil verb[ T ] uk /bɪˈdev.əl/ us /bɪˈdev.əl/-ll- or US usually-l- to confuse, annoy, or cause problems or difficulties for someone or something: 迷惑;苦恼;弄糟 Ever since I started playing tennis, I've been bedevilled by back pains.自从我打网球以来，一直忍受着背痛的折磨。 Causing feelings of anger and displeasure aggravate aggrieve alienate anger annoy bend go too faridiom goat grate hack someone off harass nark rub rub someone up the wrong wayidiom ruffle ruffle someone's feathersidiom set someone's teeth on edgeidiom tit tooth troll Examples of bedevilbedevil The authors start with a convincing exposition of the fragmentation and poor co-ordination that bedevils many services for older people. It was bedevilled by unemployment, social exclusion and a growing sense of precariousness and inequality. This is a subject that has been bedevilled by the gulf between literary, liturgical and musical scholars. In the long run, debates and policy developments in this area are bedeviled by a simple lack of knowledge. All population statistics are bedevilled by the different measures used in the census and the ways in which the figures can be presented. Now it is entirely appropriate to wish "equilibrium" restored, but that is not the only pertinent reductionism bedeviling this domain. The teaching of reading had been bedevilled by wrong theory and by people ignoring abundant evidence on what really works best. Municipal expenditure, in turn, necessitated the growth of local taxation, whose regressive impact continued to bedevil those responsible for local government in both countries.#! Coughing fits, rustling candy wrappers - auditory interference which can bedevil any theatrical experience - are, in-the-round, aggravated by visual 'noise'. If the concept of the urban has been bedevilled by issues of definition, so too has that of the middle class. This mode of reasoning remained popular throughout the nineteenth century, and bedeviled the study of complicated singular points and their resolutions. Comparisons of these epidemiological data have been bedevilled by the lack of uniformity in defining the diagnostic criteria and pathology. Indeed, it is this failure to agree which has bedevilled the movement. This ensures an irenic and objective approach to a controversial subject which has almost always been bedevilled by lack of charity and by high emotion. It is clear that difficulties in quantifying written climatic records continue to bedevil what otherwise are records of high chronological precision. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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