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单词 beset
释义
beset
adjective[after verb]
uk
/bɪˈset/us
/bɪˈset/
having a lot oftroublewith something, or having todealwith a lot of something thatcausesproblems:
困扰的；充满…困难的
With theamountoftrafficnowadays,evenatripacrosstownis besetby/withdangers.目前交通如此拥挤，即使穿城而行也充满了危险。
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
  • beleaguer
  • beleaguered
  • border
  • boxsomeone/somethingin
  • circumscribe
  • dunk
  • fencesomethingoff
  • flooding
  • gather
  • gift wrap
  • gift-wrapped
  • girdle
  • steep
  • steepsomething/someoneinsomething
  • submersion
  • surround
  • swaddle
  • swallow
  • swamp
  • twine
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(Definition ofbesetfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

beset| American Dictionary

beset
verb[T]
us
/bɪˈset/
past tensebeset|present participlebesetting
hurtortroubledby somethingbad:
Manyproblemshave beset theteaminrecentmonths.
(Definition ofbesetfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbeset

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Centrifugal forces arose from within villages, besetting religious life with internal contradictions and contestation.
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Both completed two successive presidential terms, a unique accomplishment in the continent, and overcame the political instability that previouslybesettheir nations.
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Such fatalism comes easily to societiesbesetby daunting and uncontrollable factors.
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It does not guarantee that the host of problems besetting so many countries can be handled effectively.
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Since the early 1970s, the region seems to have been widelybesetby civil wars, political upheavals, famines and other natural disasters.
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First, a genuine and sustainable democracy cannot flourish in a society where ethnic and religious divisions continue tobesetthe social and political relations.
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In a sustained tour de force of increasing density, the voice, having struggled into articulacy, finds itselfbesetwith pinging electronic attacks.
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It is alsobesetby differences between its members about how to handle problems like unemployment.
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Unfortunately, the following major difficultiesbesetthis proposal.
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Klatch shows that conservatives as well as leftists were radicalised by their experiences, and that both organisations werebesetby factionalism.
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However, they found a science that has beenbesetby doubt ever since the eye of prophecy lost its luster.
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The third period (1946-1974), whilebesetwith difficulties, continued the development started in the second period and made some new innovations, especially in poetry.
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Cross-national comparisons of partisan identification arebesetby conceptual and methodological difficulties.
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The prominences arebesetwith small tubercles, and are marked off into three more or less equal portions by two shallow furrows.
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Several novels deal with the turbulent dramas besetting the corporate corridors of phonographic power: the studios and boardrooms, where careers are forged or destroyed.
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