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单词 affliction
释义
affliction
noun[CorU]
formal
uk
/əˈflɪk.ʃən/us
/əˈflɪk.ʃən/
something that makes yousuffer:
痛苦；苦恼；折磨
Malnutrition is one of thecommonafflictions of thepoor.营养不良是困扰穷人的常见问题之一。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Experiencing and suffering
  • (straight) from the horse's mouthidiom
  • afflict
  • almost/nearly die ofsomethingidiom
  • be a martyr tosomethingidiom
  • be a victim ofyourown successidiom
  • 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
  • survive
  • taste
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(Definition ofafflictionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofaffliction

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Of course, the nature of the afflictions required measures for the security of both the patients and their community.
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The implication is that a father's realisation that he was the cause of his son'safflictionmight induce him to repent.
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This 'affliction' is evident to all those affected, no special surveys or measurements are required.
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A greaterafflictionis ' the apathy that derives from the lack of commitment to the civic public realm ' (p. 96).
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In one final hyperbolic line, the narrator suggests that the upsidedown reversals caused by bluesafflictionare insurmountable.
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A part of the reason for this is that lived disabilities are not accidental afflictions of people whose rational substance remains ever untouched.
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In the first, individuals view their illness as temporary, a bounded time of bodily impairment oraffliction.
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To be tormented without a clear definition of the self is a distinctly modernaffliction.
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In this instance theafflictionis far from clear.
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This is anafflictionwith many, but by no means all, thick academic paperbacks.
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They felt particular shame when theirafflictionprevented them from farming, making them feel parasites dependent on the community.
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The cause of ourafflictionis the church of clerks which the archbishop intends.
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The sufferings of others the poet thus narrated with the same intensity as he lamented the afflictions of his heart.
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Traditionally, we have regarded obesity as anafflictionof middle life, with the extremes of life relatively spared.
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Why separate external and internal afflictions, instead of simply organizing one comprehensive text in the top-down, outward-inward fashion?
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