单词 | beset |
释义 | be·set 1. a. < leaves whose edges were beset with thorns — J.G.Frazer > < a crown beset with pearls > b. < beset with tangled vegetation — Xavier Herbert > : fill or strew especially with impediments < the road is beset with dragons and evil magicians — T.B.Costain > 2. < subject to none of the pressures that beset American and English papers — F.L.Mott > < distrust of himself had always beset and hampered him — S.H.Adams > 3. a. < throughout the long trek the settlers were beset by savages > b. < enemy troops beset the fortress > c. < a screaming mob beset every road into the town > d. (1) < a town beset with towering mountains > (2) < his task was beset with many difficulties > (3) < in danger of being beset by the worst pack we'd ever seen — Glen Jacobsen > |
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