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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Miscommunication has bedevilled European Monetary Union.
  沟通不力问题一直困扰着欧洲货币同盟。
• 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。
• Sakhalin Energy, meanwhile, has been bedevilled by environmental problems.
  而库页能源公司也在被环境问题所困扰。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。