(verb.) assail or attack on all sides: 'The zebra was beset by leopards'.
整理:罗威娜
双语例句
The man was beset by friends who told him he was mad to continue the chase, and that his undoubted talents in other lines were being wasted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Hindrances and pitfalls, dear girls, which beset us on our way to higher things! 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
I was almost as hard beset by him now as I had been once before, in a different way, by another. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
You will probably keep a larger house, have many matters to arrange, and be beset by numbers of correspondents. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
You don't know, and you can't, the daily, hourly trials that beset a housekeeper from them, everywhere and every way. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Protestants are rarely superstitious; these morbid fancies will not beset _you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
My Liege, said the Friar, I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
I am beset here with neighbours that match your infidels, Sir Knight, in Holy Land. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
Little recked Mr Podsnap of the traps and toils besetting his Young Person. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
They are your besetting sin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
There are briars besetting every path, Which call for patient care; There is a cross in every lot, And an earnest need for prayer. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
Hunger and cold are her comrades; sadness hovers over, and solitude besets her round. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.