afflict
英 [əˈflɪkt]
美 [əˈflɪkt]
v. 折磨; 使痛苦
过去分词：afflicted 第三人称单数：afflicts 现在分词：afflicting 过去式：afflicted
BNC.11138 / COCA.9633
同义词辨析
plagueafflictinflict【导航词义：使受痛苦】
plaguev. 折磨，使苦恼
〔辨析〕
指糟糕的事情（如病痛、问题等）在很长一段时间内不断困扰某个人、组织、地区等，通常用被动语态。
〔例证〕
He was plagued by insomnia.
他受到失眠的折磨。
Labour shortages continued to plague that area.
用工荒继续困扰该地区。
他受到失眠的折磨。
Labour shortages continued to plague that area.
用工荒继续困扰该地区。
afflictv. 〈正式〉使痛苦，折磨
〔辨析〕
指疾病、战争、贫困等让某人、某地区等饱受折磨，常用被动语态。
〔例证〕
About 20% of that country's population is afflicted by famine.
那个国家20%左右的居民饱受饥荒之苦。
How many people around the world are afflicted with arthritis?
世界上有多少人为关节炎所折磨？
那个国家20%左右的居民饱受饥荒之苦。
How many people around the world are afflicted with arthritis?
世界上有多少人为关节炎所折磨？
inflictv. 使承受，使遭受
〔辨析〕
指使人、机构、地区等遭受不愉快的事。
〔例证〕
The strikes inflicted serious damage on the company.
罢工给公司造成了巨大损失。
Peasants still had to pay the rent despite all of the damage inflicted by the storm.
尽管暴风雪造成了各种损失，农民依然得交租。
罢工给公司造成了巨大损失。
Peasants still had to pay the rent despite all of the damage inflicted by the storm.
尽管暴风雪造成了各种损失，农民依然得交租。
牛津词典
verb
- 折磨；使痛苦
to affect sb/sth in an unpleasant or harmful way- About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease.
全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。 - Aid will be sent to the afflicted areas.
将向受灾地区提供援助。
- About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 折磨;使痛苦
If youare afflicted bypain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.- Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades...
几十年来意大利一直饱受政治腐败之苦。 - There are two main problems which afflict people with hearing impairments...
听力有障碍的人们主要受到两大问题的困扰。 - The afflicted person should keep off solid foods and drink plenty of fluids.
病人不应吃固体食物而要多喝流质食物。 - The afflictedare people who are afflicted.
受苦的人 - It is food that the afflicted want now.
受苦的人们现在需要的是食物。
- Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades...
英英释义
verb
- cause physical pain or suffering in
- afflict with the plague
- cause great unhappiness for
- she was afflicted by the death of her parents
双语例句
- The artistic temperament is a disease that afflict amateur.
艺术家脾气，是折磨业余爱好者的一种病。 - There are many illnesses, which afflict old people.
这里有许多的疾病，折磨这些老人。 - -To have, by then, halted, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/ AIDS, the scourge of malaria and other major diseases that afflict humanity.
-届时制止并开始扭转艾滋病毒/艾滋病的蔓延、消灭疟疾及其他折磨人类的主要疾病的祸害。 - Finally, a global health fund could be set up to purchase licenses from developers of new medicines essential to treating HIV/ AIDS and other diseases that disproportionately afflict poor countries.
最后，可以建立全球卫生基金用于从开发者手中购买治疗艾滋病和其他对贫困国家影响较大的疾病所必需的最新药品许可证。 - The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.
耶和华必用癫狂，眼瞎，心惊攻击你。 - I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent, and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens.
我理解折磨着这块大陆的对战争的恐惧和分裂的痛苦，我也向你们保证来自我的国家的努力以帮助你们克服这些包袱。 - But animals are generally not susceptible to the diseases that afflict humans.
但是动物对困扰人类的疾病往往不易感染。 - AIDS and cancer are maladies that afflict humanity.
爱滋病和癌症是折磨人类的疾病。 - Handling of diseases that afflict large populations are usually rather stringent.
群发性疾病的处理一般要比较严格。 - Scleroderma, an autoimmune disease, tends to afflict middle-age women and can affect many parts of the body, inside and out.
硬皮病，一种自身免疫疾病，多发于中年妇女，可以影响到躯体内外的多个部位。