besetting
[bɪ'setɪŋ]
adj.
不断攻击的;
v.
困扰( beset的现在分词 );
不断围攻;
镶;
嵌;
例句:
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Laziness is my besetting sin.
懒惰是我积重难返的恶习.
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His besetting sin is laziness.
他所易犯的毛病就是懒惰.
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What courage can withstand the everduring and all - besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?
有哪一种勇气,能挡得住喋喋不休,咄咄逼人的可怕的女人的舌头?
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She felt this added to the problems which she already discerned as besetting the government.
来自BBC
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The descriptivists' response to such statements is one of outraged virtue, and that is their besetting sin: self-righteousness.
来自NEWYORKER