英语释义
1. to set or stud with or as if with ornaments
a crown beset with rubies … leaves, whose edges were beset with thorns …
— J. G. Frazer
2. trouble, harass
inflation besets the economy
3. to set upon assail
the explorers were beset by wolves
4. to hem in surround
a town beset with high mountains
5. to cause problems or difficulties for (someone or something)
6. to attack violently The traveler was beset by wild beasts.
7. surround sense 1 a moon beset with clouds
8. to cause problems or difficulties for
Doubts beset him.