Beset

(verb.) assail or attack on all sides: 'The zebra was beset by leopards'.

整理:罗威娜

• The man was beset by friends who told him he was mad to continue the chase, and that his undoubted talents in other lines were being wasted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Hindrances and pitfalls, dear girls, which beset us on our way to higher things! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I was almost as hard beset by him now as I had been once before, in a different way, by another. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You will probably keep a larger house, have many matters to arrange, and be beset by numbers of correspondents. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You don't know, and you can't, the daily, hourly trials that beset a housekeeper from them, everywhere and every way. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Protestants are rarely superstitious; these morbid fancies will not beset _you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• My Liege, said the Friar, I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I am beset here with neighbours that match your infidels, Sir Knight, in Holy Land. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Little recked Mr Podsnap of the traps and toils besetting his Young Person. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They are your besetting sin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• There are briars besetting every path, Which call for patient care; There is a cross in every lot, And an earnest need for prayer. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Hunger and cold are her comrades; sadness hovers over, and solitude besets her round. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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