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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Such confusion has bedevilled the interpretation of the human fossils found near Lake Turkana.
  这种极易混淆的情况一直困扰着那些想要解读图尔卡纳湖附近人类化石的研究者们。
• 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？
• 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。
• His career was bedevilled by injury.
  他的职业生涯深受伤病的困扰。
• Barack Obama has taken the extraordinary step of publicly releasing his complete birth certificate in an effort to kill off conspiracy theories that have bedevilled the US president since the 2008 election.
  巴拉克奥巴马（barackobama）迈出不同寻常的一步，公开了自己的完整出生证，以求粉碎自2008年大选以来一直困扰这位美国总统的阴谋论。
• 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。