| 词汇 | beset |
| 释义 | beset adjective[ after verb ] uk /bɪˈset/ us /bɪˈset/ having a lot of trouble with something, or having to deal with a lot of something that causes problems: 困扰的;充满…困难的 With the amount of traffic nowadays, even a trip across town is beset by/with dangers.目前交通如此拥挤，即使穿城而行也充满了危险。 Enclosing, surrounding and immersing beleaguer beleaguered border box someone/something in circumscribe dunk enclosure fence something off flooding gather gift wrap gift-wrapped girdle siege soak steep steep something/someone in something submersion swaddle swamp beset | American Dictionarybeset verb[ T ] us/bɪˈset/past tensebeset | present participlebesetting hurt or troubled by something bad: Many problems have beset the team in recent months. Examples of besetbeset Centrifugal forces arose from within villages, besetting religious life with internal contradictions and contestation. Both completed two successive presidential terms, a unique accomplishment in the continent, and overcame the political instability that previously beset their nations. Such fatalism comes easily to societies beset by daunting and uncontrollable factors. It does not guarantee that the host of problems besetting so many countries can be handled effectively. Since the early 1970s, the region seems to have been widely beset by civil wars, political upheavals, famines and other natural disasters. First, a genuine and sustainable democracy cannot flourish in a society where ethnic and religious divisions continue to beset the social and political relations. In a sustained tour de force of increasing density, the voice, having struggled into articulacy, finds itself beset with pinging electronic attacks. It is also beset by differences between its members about how to handle problems like unemployment. Unfortunately, the following major difficulties beset this proposal. Klatch shows that conservatives as well as leftists were radicalised by their experiences, and that both organisations were beset by factionalism. However, they found a science that has been beset by doubt ever since the eye of prophecy lost its luster. The third period (1946-1974), while beset with difficulties, continued the development started in the second period and made some new innovations, especially in poetry. Cross-national comparisons of partisan identification are beset by conceptual and methodological difficulties. The prominences are beset with small tubercles, and are marked off into three more or less equal portions by two shallow furrows. Several novels deal with the turbulent dramas besetting the corporate corridors of phonographic power: the studios and boardrooms, where careers are forged or destroyed. 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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