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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 development has been bedevilled with problems.
  发展受到了诸多问题的困扰。
• Miscommunication has bedevilled European Monetary Union.
  沟通不力问题一直困扰着欧洲货币同盟。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？