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单词 afflict
释义
afflict
verb[T]
uk
/əˈflɪkt/us
/əˈflɪkt/
If aproblemorillnessafflicts apersonor thing, theysufferfrom it:
使痛苦；使苦恼；折磨
It is anillnessthat afflicts women more than men.患这种疾病的女性多于男性。
acountryafflicted bycivilwar饱受内战蹂躏的国家
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Experiencing and suffering
  • (straight) from the horse's mouthidiom
  • affliction
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  • be devoured bysomethingidiom
  • bear
  • count
  • get the short end of the stickidiom
  • go through
  • grip
  • hands-on
  • hitsomeonewheretheyliveidiom
  • horse
  • ride
  • seat-of-the-pants
  • see lifeidiom
  • stricken
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(Definition ofafflictfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

afflict| American Dictionary

afflict
verb[T]
us
/əˈflɪkt/
to make someone or somethingsufferphysicallyormentally:
He was afflicted withsevereasthma.

affliction

noun[C]us
/əˈflɪk·ʃən/
Illiteracy is aseriousaffliction.
(Definition ofafflictfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofafflict

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Be that as it may, disease canafflictthe annulus, the leaflets or the tension apparatus to produce stenosis, incompetence or both.
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The spirits are also believed significantly to influence life in the human world through their ability toafflicthumans with all manner of diseases.
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This strength, however, is nearly lost in the midst of many weaknesses afflicting the book.
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Prior to doing this, however, we have to first sort out a logical conundrum that afflicts canonical definitions of negative specific freedom.
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Rather than masking the problems that afflicted her business, she paraded them in full view of her customers.
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My criticisms stem from the lack of a fully genetical perspective - a problem that afflicts most studies of hybrid zones.
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The downside is that it generates problems of demandingness of a sort that alsoafflictthese rival approaches.
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In 1819, he called for the establishment of spaces exclusively devoted to the treatment of the mentally afflicted.
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But occasionally he is afflicted with a desire to help someone.
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While still living, the miser had observed a spoiled and precocious girl afflicting her passive father.
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The fever with which she was afflicted represents the vices.
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From a clinical standpoint, mitral incompetence and/or stenosis may obscure the lesion afflicting the tricuspid valve.
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Moreover, it may offer a glimmer of hope for treatment for those who are afflicted with these diseases.
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I should add that the severe deficits in civil and social rights just sketched do notafflicteveryone.
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Most of the survivors, operated on using atrial redirection procedures, are afflicted with some cardiac or non-cardiac sequels.
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