| 词汇 | afflict |
| 释义 | afflict verb[ T ] uk /əˈflɪkt/ us /əˈflɪkt/ If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they or it suffer from it: It is an illness that afflicts women more than men.患这种疾病的女性多于男性。 a country afflicted by civil war饱受内战蹂躏的国家 Experiencing and suffering (straight) from the horse's mouthidiom affliction almost/nearly die of somethingidiom be a martyr to somethingidiom be a victim of your own successidiom be devoured by somethingidiom bear count grip hands-on hit someone where they liveidiom hold onidiom horse impact statement ride see lifeidiom stricken suffer the consequences survive taste afflict | American Dictionaryafflict verb[ T ] us/əˈflɪkt/ to make someone or something suffer physically or mentally: He was afflicted with severe asthma. afflictionnoun[ C ]us/əˈflɪk·ʃən/ Illiteracy is a serious affliction. Examples of afflictafflict Be that as it may, disease can afflict the annulus, the leaflets or the tension apparatus to produce stenosis, incompetence or both. The spirits are also believed significantly to influence life in the human world through their ability to afflict humans with all manner of diseases. This strength, however, is nearly lost in the midst of many weaknesses afflicting the book. Prior to doing this, however, we have to first sort out a logical conundrum that afflicts canonical definitions of negative specific freedom. Rather than masking the problems that afflicted her business, she paraded them in full view of her customers. My criticisms stem from the lack of a fully genetical perspective - a problem that afflicts most studies of hybrid zones. The downside is that it generates problems of demandingness of a sort that also afflict these rival approaches. In 1819, he called for the establishment of spaces exclusively devoted to the treatment of the mentally afflicted. But occasionally he is afflicted with a desire to help someone. While still living, the miser had observed a spoiled and precocious girl afflicting her passive father. The fever with which she was afflicted represents the vices. From a clinical standpoint, mitral incompetence and/or stenosis may obscure the lesion afflicting the tricuspid valve. Moreover, it may offer a glimmer of hope for treatment for those who are afflicted with these diseases. I should add that the severe deficits in civil and social rights just sketched do not afflict everyone. Most of the survivors, operated on using atrial redirection procedures, are afflicted with some cardiac or non-cardiac sequels. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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