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？
• 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。
• 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 development has been bedevilled with problems.
  发展受到了诸多问题的困扰。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。