be beset by

基本解释

Yet until quite recently the notion that Germany would be beset by the global downturn seemed unthinkable.
然而在前些日子，認爲德國會受到全球蕭條影響的想法仍被認爲是不可思議的。
He may be beset by ethical problems, whether over campaign finance or Whitewater indictments, even conceivably of his wife.
他可能爲道德問題所睏擾，無論競選捐款醜聞還是白水門事件，甚至他妻子的信譽。
Starting as a green hand, he often had trouble falling asleep and would be beset by nightmares of the dead people he'd helped shepherd to their final resting place.
作爲一個新手，他時常夜不能寐，還常常做噩夢，夢到自己曾經主持下葬過的逝者們。

"What I'm really hoping to hear from you is several concrete steps that you're going to take moving forward that will be able to re-ignite my generation, re-ignite the youth who are beset by student loans.

But even this painful escape route out of the fiscal and economic mess will be beset by traps and ambushes.
ECONOMIST: The economy after the election
Mr. WITTE: If the Katrina recovery does not work out well, if it continues to flail, if it continues to be beset by the same kind of problems that you saw with the initial response, I think that you are going to be seeing a lot of people wondering was it a good decision to outsource so much of what government does, to contract that out?
NPR: Post-Katrina Contractors in the Gulf Region
In fraught political circumstances, like those that beset Israel, the quality of leadership can be tested by national catastrophe.
ECONOMIST: Israel's new government