bedevilled

英 [bɪˈdevld]

美 [bɪˈdevld]

v.  长期搅扰
bedevil的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 bedeviling, bedeviled


• VERB 烦扰；困扰；使苦恼
  If youare bedevilled bysomething unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
  1. His career was bedevilled by injury.
     他的职业生涯深受伤病的困扰。
  2. The development has been bedevilled with problems.
     发展受到了诸多问题的困扰。
  3. ...a problem that has bedevilled service industries for decades.
     困扰了服务行业几十年的问题

双语例句

• Relations have been further bedevilled by anxiety in Beijing that the US and its allies in south and east Asia are seeking to encircle and to contain China.
  中国对于美国及其东南亚盟友正寻求包围和遏制中国感到焦虑，这种情绪也困扰着中印关系。
• It is an issue that has bedevilled US-China relations for longer than most people think. In fact, the peg to the dollar was a major source of friction in the 1930s, although at the time the two sides 'positions were reversed.
  美中关系受汇率问题困扰的时间，比大多数人认为的都要长。事实上，盯住美元的汇率机制是上世纪三十年代美中摩擦的一大缘由，尽管双方当年的立场与现在正好相反。
• The issue is bedevilled by Smith's refusal to cooperate with us.
  该问题由于史密斯拒绝跟我们合作而变为复杂。
• It seems like a good moment to ask him the question that has bedevilled white House-watchers since he was appointed to head the NEC: what exactly is his job?
  看来，现在是向他请教那个自他被任命为国家经济委员会负责人以来困扰白宫观察人士的问题的好时机：他的职责究竟是什么？
• His career was bedevilled by injury.
  他的职业生涯深受伤病的困扰。
• The study overcame two problems that have bedevilled efforts to develop stem cells therapies for cardiac disease: creating heart muscle cells from embryonic stem cells; and enabling the new cells to thrive after implantation in the damaged heart.
  该研究克服了两个困扰心脏病干细胞疗法研究努力的问题：一是从胚胎干细胞中培育心肌细胞；二是保证新细胞在植入受损心脏后能够存活。
• Even before Miss Bhutto's murder, the election campaign had been bedevilled by political conflict and terrorism.
  甚至在暗杀布托的人之前，选举运动就已经受到了政治冲突和恐怖主义的困扰。
• The expedition was bedevilled by bad weather.
  探险队深受恶劣天气的困扰。
• Piracy has long bedevilled Microsoft in China, where it is estimated that 80 per cent of PCs running Windows are using pirated software.
  盗版长期困扰着微软在华业务。在中国，运行Windows的个人电脑（PC）估计有80%在使用盗版软件。
• They are besieged by complaints and bedevilled with problems.
  他们为种种抱怨所烦恼，为诸多问题所困扰。