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 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 issue is bedevilled by Smith's refusal to cooperate with us.
  该问题由于史密斯拒绝跟我们合作而变为复杂。
• And perhaps the biggest problem is one that also bedevilled the G8.
  但G20面临的最大问题，或许同样是困扰着G8的那个问题。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Relations have been further bedevilled by anxiety in Beijing that the US and its allies in south and east Asia are seeking to encircle and to contain China.
  中国对于美国及其东南亚盟友正寻求包围和遏制中国感到焦虑，这种情绪也困扰着中印关系。
• 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。
• Such confusion has bedevilled the interpretation of the human fossils found near Lake Turkana.
  这种极易混淆的情况一直困扰着那些想要解读图尔卡纳湖附近人类化石的研究者们。
• 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。