affliction

英 [əˈflɪkʃn]

美 [əˈflɪkʃn]

n.  折磨; 痛苦

复数：afflictions　

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BNC.18812 / COCA.13678

牛津词典

noun

• 折磨；痛苦
  pain and suffering or sth that causes it

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 病痛；苦恼；折磨
  Anafflictionis something which causes physical or mental suffering.
  1. Hay fever is an affliction which arrives at an early age.
     枯草热是年纪较小时会患的一种病。
  2. ...the afflictions of modern society.
     现代社会的烦恼

英英释义

noun

• a cause of great suffering and distress
• a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health
• a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

双语例句

• This affliction, far from reducing his productivity, drove him more completely into himself.
  这种痛苦的折磨，与减少他的创作能力不同，更彻底地深深打击了他。
• An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster.
  带来可怕的损失、持久的不幸或严重痛苦的事件；一场灾难；
• Foot rot is an avoidable affliction.
  烂蹄病是可以避免的。
• Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.
  指任何经受得住痛苦而不绝望的能长期忍耐的人。
• These adjectives all mean affected with or marked by unhappiness, as that caused by affliction.
  这些形容词都表示受不愉快影响的或有其特征的。
• Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.
  请你不要成为我的恐怖，你原是我患难之日的避难所。
• His mind is not a mind for affliction.
  他的头脑是不受苦恼的影响的。
• Scourge: A source of widespread, dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
  灾难，灾祸：涉及面广的令人害怕的苦难和破坏的根源，例如由瘟疫或战争引起的。
• This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
  这话将我救活了。我在患难中，因此得安慰。
• One who lives through affliction.
  经历了痛苦而活下来的人。