| 词汇 | affliction |
| 释义 | affliction noun[ C or U ] formaluk /əˈflɪk.ʃən/ us /əˈflɪk.ʃən/ something that makes you suffer: 痛苦;苦恼;折磨 Malnutrition is one of the common afflictions of the poor.营养不良是困扰穷人的常见问题之一。 Experiencing and suffering (straight) from the horse's mouthidiom afflict 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 Examples of afflictionaffliction Of course, the nature of the afflictions required measures for the security of both the patients and their community. The implication is that a father's realisation that he was the cause of his son's affliction might induce him to repent. This 'affliction' is evident to all those affected, no special surveys or measurements are required. A greater affliction is ' the apathy that derives from the lack of commitment to the civic public realm ' (p. 96). In one final hyperbolic line, the narrator suggests that the upsidedown reversals caused by blues affliction are insurmountable. A part of the reason for this is that lived disabilities are not accidental afflictions of people whose rational substance remains ever untouched. In the first, individuals view their illness as temporary, a bounded time of bodily impairment or affliction. To be tormented without a clear definition of the self is a distinctly modern affliction. In this instance the affliction is far from clear. This is an affliction with many, but by no means all, thick academic paperbacks. They felt particular shame when their affliction prevented them from farming, making them feel parasites dependent on the community. The cause of our affliction is the church of clerks which the archbishop intends. The sufferings of others the poet thus narrated with the same intensity as he lamented the afflictions of his heart. Traditionally, we have regarded obesity as an affliction of middle life, with the extremes of life relatively spared. Why separate external and internal afflictions, instead of simply organizing one comprehensive text in the top-down, outward-inward fashion? 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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