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

• 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。
• 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？
• The expedition was bedevilled by bad weather.
  探险队深受恶劣天气的困扰。
• One central sin that bedevilled the SIVs was that banks often used them for regulatory arbitrage.
  SIV身上的一大罪过是，银行经常利用它们进行监管套利。
• The development has been bedevilled with problems.
  发展受到了诸多问题的困扰。
• In the1960s and1970s Mexicans'uncertain status bedevilled attempts to create a civil-rights movement as potent as the black one was.
  在上世纪六七十年代，墨西哥人的社会地位很难确定，使得发动像黑人民权运动一样有影响力的运动的各种企图上受挫。
• North Korea on Monday confirmed that the banking dispute that had bedevilled a nuclear disarmament pact was finally resolved, paving the way for substantive discussions with international arms inspectors due in Pyongyang on Tuesday.
  朝鲜方面周一证实，困扰裁核协议的银行资金争议已最终到解决，为定于本周二与国际原子能机构核查人员在平壤举行的实质性谈判铺平了道路。
• Miscommunication has bedevilled European Monetary Union.
  沟通不力问题一直困扰着欧洲货币同盟。
• Big London long/ short funds are now bedevilled by the same crowding, prompting him to diversify into funds in Helsinki, Spain and Oslo in the search for good short ideas.
  伦敦地区的大型多/空型基金如今也面临着同样的苦恼，这促使史密斯将目光转向赫尔辛基、西班牙和奥斯陆的基金，以寻找好的空头理念。
• In recent months in several countries the pins have all but stopped moving across the map as Chinese construction companies have encountered some of the difficulties that have long bedevilled large projects in Africa, in particular that of cost.
  最近几个月，在一些非洲国家，别针已经停止在地图上移动，因为中国建筑公司遭遇了一些困难。长期以来，这些困难一直影响着非洲的大型项目，尤其是成本难题。