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to affect somebody/something in an unpleasant or harmful way 困扰；威胁 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。 🔊🔊 a life beset with financial worries 财务忧虑困扰的生活
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBeset is used with these nouns as the subject:- problem
Word OriginOld English besettan, from be- ‘about’ + settan of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zetten, German setzen.