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 one who afflict me and can't let me pass is myself.
不放过我的折磨我的是我自己而已； - 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。 - 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。 - -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。 - Although I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no more.
犹大阿，我虽然使你受苦，却不再使你受苦。 - 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。 - High mortality rates still afflict children of the third world.
高死亡率仍然给第三世界的孩子？带来苦难。 - If God afflict your enemies, surely that ought to suffice you.
如果上帝使你的敌人苦恼，当然你就应该知足了。 - AIDS and cancer are maladies that afflict humanity.
爱滋病和癌症是折磨人类的疾病。 - Financial crises afflict every kind of country.
金融危机侵害着每一种类型的国家。