bedevil
音标发音
- 英式音标 [bɪˈdev.əl]
- 美式音标 [bɪˈdev.əl]
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基本解释
- v.使痛苦；使糊涂；虐待；搞糟
英汉例句
- Keeping those promises will soon start to bedevil the administration.
这些承诺将很快开始困扰这届政府。 - Localized changes are easy to apply and you can see their immediate effect, but far-away side-effect breakages bedevil you.
本地化修改可以很容易地应用并且可以立即看到修改效果，但是副作用产生的破坏也会使您非常苦恼。 - People bow at temples and in honor of ancestors, for instance, but they don’t go in for the bows of greeting and farewell that so often bedevil foreigners in Japan.
例如，人们在寺庙里鞠躬，祭祖时鞠躬，但在迎来送往中却没有这个礼节，不像在日本那样折腾外国人。 - Rising food price inflation is expected to bedevil small groceries as well as the giant supermarkets.
FORBES: Whole Foods Market: It Is One Of The Best Inflation Plays in Supermarkets - The temptations of exercising discretion and marking solicited trades as unsolicited frequently bedevil stockbrokers.
FORBES: Morgan Stanley Broker Cited For Discretion And Unsolicited Trades - The question why human beings are collaborative continues to bedevil the field of evolutionary biology.
FORBES: 'Work' and 'Home' Are Not True Distinctions
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- to confuse, annoy, or cause problems or difficulties for someone or something
- If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.