to affect sb/sth in an unpleasant or harmful way
The team was beset by injury all season.
这个队整个赛季都因队员受伤而受困扰。
It's one of the most difficult problems besetting our modern way of life.
那是困扰我们现代生活方式的一个最棘手的问题。
1.包围,围绕;【航】被冰块包围
2.扰,攻,袭;缠扰,为(病)所苦,
3.镶,嵌
1.to cause someone difficulty or danger over a period of time
1.Today, this kind of hundred year old-established shops beset with a crisis, vacillated Wall Street's male letter strength once more.
今天，这样一家百年老店陷入危机，再次动摇了华尔街的公信力。
2.Bahrain is the only Arab state so far in the oil-rich Persian Gulf beset by unrest amid protests across much of the rest of the Mideast.
巴林是目前为止唯一一个受到中东骚乱困扰的位于波斯湾的阿拉伯国家。波斯湾盛产石油。
3.The feeling which beset the child was one of dim uncertain horror.
困恼着这孩子的感情乃是一种虚无缥缈的恐怖。
4.He may be beset by ethical problems, whether over campaign finance or Whitewater indictments, even conceivably of his wife.
他可能为道德问题所困扰，无论竞选捐款丑闻还是白水门事件，甚至他妻子的信誉。
5.The enemy beset the city with a strong army.
敌人以强大的军队围困城市。
6.After a period of time has been beset by years of many symptoms I had not been repeated.
一段时间之后，困扰了我多年的很多病症居然就没再犯过。
7.This doubt alone often beset Pierre. He made no plans of any sort now.
只有这团疑云常常在他的脑海中掠过，他现在也还没有制定任何计划。
8.For a time she had been beset with a madness for writing notes which she addressed to Seth.
她曾经有一段时间害了怪毛病，象疯了似的给赛特写书柬。
9.Although from its height and being so near upon the sea, it was often beset with clouds, yet it was a pleasant place.
尽管因为那里地势高，邻近大海，时常被云层所笼罩，那倒是一个愉快的住所。
10.In terms of theft and forgery of a currency, similar problems have beset real-world coins and notes since they were invented.
就偷窃和伪造货币而言，自现实世界的硬币和纸币发明以来就一直备受类似问题的困扰。