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afflict

/əˈflɪkt/📚 9864 123六级托福雅思
If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer. 困扰

verb [vt. 及物动词]折磨，使痛苦；（天体）相对于（另一天体或黄道上某点）处于应力星位

Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades.
意大利受政治腐败困扰已数十年了。

afflict 出现在下面的课文中
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy afflict 动词: 使苦恼，折磨
afflict

vt. 折磨；使痛苦；使苦恼

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相关词汇

易混淆inflict/ɪnˈflɪkt/vt. 给予（打击等）；使遭受（损伤、痛苦等）；造成
写作替换distress/dɪˈstres/n. 危难，不幸；贫困；悲痛
词组含义例句
be afflict with患有某种疾病或问题：指身体或心理上受到某种疾病或问题的困扰。Only other sufferers know what it is like to be afflicted with this disease. 只有其他得过这种病的人才知道得这种病的痛苦滋味。
be afflict by受……之苦：被某种疾病、困难、问题等所困扰或影响。But she refused to allow her spirit to be afflicted by the desperate reality of her young life. 不过她并没有让自己的精神受到幼年生活中残酷现实的影响。