bedevil

verb

1. 长期搅扰
   to cause a lot of problems for sb/sth over a long period of time
   1. The expedition was bedevilled by bad weather.
      探险队深受恶劣天气的困扰。

in AM, use 美国英语用 bedeviling, bedeviled


1. VERB 烦扰；困扰；使苦恼
   If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
   1. His career was bedevilled by injury.
      他的职业生涯深受伤病的困扰。
   2. The development has been bedevilled with problems.
      发展受到了诸多问题的困扰。
   3. ...a problem that has bedevilled service industries for decades.
      困扰了服务行业几十年的问题

1. His career was bedevilled by injury.
   他的职业生涯深受伤病的困扰。
2. The development has been bedevilled with problems.
   发展受到了诸多问题的困扰。
3. They are untainted by the conflicts of interest that bedevil banks offering research on clients, and that led to a 2003 settlement enforcing stricter separation of investment banking and research in America.
   他们受到长期困扰银行给客户提供调查报告的利益冲突的影响，这导致了在2003年美国出台了针对投资银行和研究机构更严格的分离。
4. 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。
5. Similar issues bedevil financial services.
   类似的问题也困扰着金融服务业。
6. Samsung, the Korean company that has come to bedevil Apple in recent years, first released a larger-format phone in 2011.
   韩国三星集团（Samsung）近年来已经给苹果造成了不小的麻烦。三星于2011年首次推出了一款巨屏手机。
7. That test created a cloud of debris that continues to bedevil satellites and the International Space Station.
   目前，这项实验所产生的一个卫星残骸云团仍在困扰其他卫星以及国际空间站。
8. Wenzhou businesses can overcome the risks facing the economy, he says, if they avoid making products with the low margins that bedevil small exporters.
   刘道松表示，如果温州企业能够避免一个困扰着小出口商的问题，也就是不再生产利润率极低的产品，他们就能克服经济中面临的风险。
9. Never in my life have I heard such sheer legal cynicism, such a cold-blooded and calculated attempt to bedevil and evade the law in my life!
   我这一辈子还从未听到过像这样在法律上玩世不恭，这样冷酷地，处心积虑地妄图破坏和逃避法律的行为。
10. The imbalances that bedevil the G20 are adjustment pains.
    困扰g20的种种失衡都是调整中的痛苦。
11. The expansion has also produced the same problems that bedevil China's economic development in general.
    扩张还带来了种种同样困扰着中国总体经济发展的问题。
12. If it backfires, it could bedevil efforts to contain public spending.
    若计划遭遇不测，为控制政府开支所做的努力将功亏一篑。
13. Managers of private partnerships tend to monitor risk carefully because they have their own skin in the game; by contrast, publicly listed hedge funds are likely to share the principal/ agent problems that bedevil other financial companies.
    私人合伙制公司的管理人员往往会谨慎监控风险，因为他们也押上了自己的资金。相比之下，上市对冲基金可能存在困扰其它金融公司的委托/代理问题。
14. Crisis and crisis management of 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou It also is the latest force to bedevil Californians, who in recent years have endured an energy crisis, the collapse of the dot-com economy and budget deficits.
    2010年广州亚运会危机问题与危机管理研究加州现在情况不佳，近来曾经受了能源危机、网络经济崩溃和财政赤字。
15. The economics have changed forever, and I suspect these kinds of sites will bedevil traditional media organizations.
    经济已经永远地改变了，并且我怀疑这些站点将困扰传统媒体组织。
16. Thus an enzyme sensor system which can achieve real time regulation, bedevil patients less, and facilitate measurement is necessary for interdisciplinary science.
    实现一个实时监控、病患痛苦少并且测量方便的酶传感器系统是亟待实现的交叉科学领域课题。

verb

1. be confusing or perplexing to
   1. These questions confuse even the experts
   2. This question completely threw me
   3. This question befuddled even the teacher

   Synonym:    confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddleconfounddiscombobulate

2. treat cruelly
   1. The children tormented the stuttering teacher

   Synonym:    tormentragcrucifydunfrustrate