bedevil

英 [bɪˈdevl]

美 [bɪˈdevl]

v.  长期搅扰

过去分词：bedevilled　第三人称单数：bedevils　过去式：bedevilled　现在分词：bedevilling　复数：bedevils　

BNC.19676 / COCA.19299

牛津词典

verb

• 长期搅扰
  to cause a lot of problems for sb/sth over a long period of time
  1. The expedition was bedevilled by bad weather.
     探险队深受恶劣天气的困扰。

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

英英释义

verb

• be confusing or perplexing to
  1. These questions confuse even the experts
  2. This question completely threw me
  3. This question befuddled even the teacher
  Synonym:confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddleconfounddiscombobulate
• treat cruelly
  1. The children tormented the stuttering teacher
  Synonym:tormentragcrucifydunfrustrate

双语例句

• The imbalances that bedevil the G20 are adjustment pains.
  困扰g20的种种失衡都是调整中的痛苦。
• That test created a cloud of debris that continues to bedevil satellites and the International Space Station.
  目前，这项实验所产生的一个卫星残骸云团仍在困扰其他卫星以及国际空间站。
• Wenzhou businesses can overcome the risks facing the economy, he says, if they avoid making products with the low margins that bedevil small exporters.
  刘道松表示，如果温州企业能够避免一个困扰着小出口商的问题，也就是不再生产利润率极低的产品，他们就能克服经济中面临的风险。
• If it backfires, it could bedevil efforts to contain public spending.
  若计划遭遇不测，为控制政府开支所做的努力将功亏一篑。
• Managers of private partnerships tend to monitor risk carefully because they have their own skin in the game; by contrast, publicly listed hedge funds are likely to share the principal/ agent problems that bedevil other financial companies.
  私人合伙制公司的管理人员往往会谨慎监控风险，因为他们也押上了自己的资金。相比之下，上市对冲基金可能存在困扰其它金融公司的委托/代理问题。
• His career was bedevilled by injury.
  他的职业生涯深受伤病的困扰。
• Never in my life have I heard such sheer legal cynicism, such a cold-blooded and calculated attempt to bedevil and evade the law in my life!
  我这一辈子还从未听到过像这样在法律上玩世不恭，这样冷酷地，处心积虑地妄图破坏和逃避法律的行为。
• Similar issues bedevil financial services.
  类似的问题也困扰着金融服务业。
• The development has been bedevilled with problems.
  发展受到了诸多问题的困扰。
• Crisis and crisis management of 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou It also is the latest force to bedevil Californians, who in recent years have endured an energy crisis, the collapse of the dot-com economy and budget deficits.
  2010年广州亚运会危机问题与危机管理研究加州现在情况不佳，近来曾经受了能源危机、网络经济崩溃和财政赤字。