beset
verb [usually passive] (formal)to affect somebody/something in an unpleasant or harmful way 困擾;威脅 The team was beset by injury all season. 這個隊整個賽季都因隊員受傷而受困擾。 It's one of the most difficult problems besetting our modern way of life. 那是困擾我們現代生活方式的一個最棘手的問題。 a life beset with financial worries 被財務問題困擾的生活
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.