bedevils

英 [bɪˈdevlz]

美 [bɪˈdevlz]

v.  长期搅扰
bedevil的第三人称单数

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 daunting list of sensitive items that bedevils trade between the two blocs has delayed the report by a few weeks.
  美欧贸易关系涉及的诸多敏感事项导致相关报告晚出炉了几周。
• So this problem of invisible beneficiaries and visible losers is one that bedevils the political economy of trade.
  因此，看不见的受益者和看得见的失败者就把贸易的政治经济给妖魔化了。
• The central issue in the background is the extent of corruption at the heart of the government, and the lack of transparency and accountability that bedevils efforts to deal with it.
  这种背景的中心问题是政府内部腐败的程度，以及透明度和问责制的缺乏，从而阻碍了为打击腐败所做的努力。
• The second is to do with a lack of underlying unity that still bedevils efforts to create a common European foreign policy.
  其次，欧洲缺乏基本团结，这依然有碍欧洲建立统一的外交政策。
• Tasmania Bedevils Tourists To An Australia Vacation-This article discusses one of the more popular regions of Australia.
  本文讨论的一些有趣的旅游目的地在澳大利亚。