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
- 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。 - A shower of blood shall fall, and a dire famine shall afflict mankind.
一阵血雨落下，可怕的饥荒会折磨人类。 - They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
耶和华阿，他们强压你的百姓，苦害你的产业。 - 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。 - Afflict those who oppress us, who insult and treat us with contempt.
求你惩罚那些欺压和傲慢侮辱我们的人！ - 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。 - Financial crises afflict every kind of country.
金融危机侵害着每一种类型的国家。 - They may grant you power, honour, and riches but afflict you with servitude, infamy, and poverty.
他们可以给你权力、荣誉和财富，但却用奴役、耻辱和贫穷来折磨你。 - For much of its history, the industry has focused chiefly on the diseases that afflict people in rich countries, while largely neglecting research into diseases of the poor.
在这些公司发展历程中的绝大部分时间里，他们都将首要的注意力集中在困扰发达国家民众的多种疾病上，同时却极大地忽视了对贫穷国家民众疾病的研究。 - It is difficult to unravel the origins of the divisive feuds among grown-ups that afflict institutions of education.
很难解开大人的分裂争斗的起源困扰的教育机构。