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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• His career was bedevilled by injury.
  他的职业生涯深受伤病的困扰。
• 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 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。
• The expedition was bedevilled by bad weather.
  探险队深受恶劣天气的困扰。
• 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？