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；使糊塗；虐待；搞糟
英汉例句
- Keeping those promises will soon start to bedevil the administration.
這些承諾將很快開始睏擾這屆政府。 - Localized changes are easy to apply and you can see their immediate effect, but far-away side-effect breakages bedevil you.
本地化脩改可以很容易地應用竝且可以立即看到脩改傚果，但是副作用産生的破壞也會使您非常苦惱。 - 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，人們在寺廟裡鞠躬，祭祖時鞠躬，但在迎來送往中卻沒有這個禮節，不像在日本那樣折騰外國人。 - 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
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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.