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

• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• The expedition was bedevilled by bad weather.
  探险队深受恶劣天气的困扰。
• Thetax system is complex and bedevilled by rules that often conflict.
  税收体系复杂还常因为自相矛盾的规定而变得一团糟。
• Sakhalin Energy, meanwhile, has been bedevilled by environmental problems.
  而库页能源公司也在被环境问题所困扰。
• And perhaps the biggest problem is one that also bedevilled the G8.
  但G20面临的最大问题，或许同样是困扰着G8的那个问题。
• The danger is that some governments, bedevilled by emerging inflationary forces, will endeavour to reassert their grip on economic affairs.
  如今的危险在于，一些饱受通胀激增之苦的政府会试图重新掌控经济事务。
• 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 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。