Affliction
[ə'flɪkʃ(ə)n]
解释:
(noun.) a cause of great suffering and distress.
(noun.) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health.
(noun.) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity.
希尔达整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
(n.) The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief.
格伦录入
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, reverse, reverse of fortune.[2]. Grief, sorrow, distress, woe, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, gripe, griping, broken heart, heavy heart.
拜伦整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow
ANT:Consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more_(or, positively:), boon,blessing, gratification, pleasure
手打:威特
娱乐性解释：
To dream that affliction lays a heavy hand upon you and calls your energy to a halt, foretells that some disaster is surely approaching you. To see others afflicted, foretells that you will be surrounded by many ills and misfortunes.
丹尼整理
娱乐性解释：
n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
艾拉编辑
例句:
- If you are in poverty or affliction I shall be truly glad to relieve you if I can,--I shall indeed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Tears are given them here for meat and drink--bread of affliction and waters of affliction--their recompence comes hereafter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- You've been visited with affliction, and I hope it may do you good; but you'd better have come here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- His anxiety, his eagerness, and affliction at this pass are pitiable to behold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- To keep a cottage night-school was one such form; and his affliction did not master his spirit as it might otherwise have done. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- He visited the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and kept himself unspotted from the world. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The peerage contributes more four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- She thanked him for a thousand thousand kind offices and proofs of steadfast friendship to her in her affliction. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I am sensible of having felt that a dignity attached to me among the rest of the boys, and that I was important in my affliction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I have not withheld money, you mean, where it could assuage affliction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- In spite of this affliction, she looked unusually gay and graceful as she glided away. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Sacred moments, when heart talked to heart in the silence of the night, turning affliction to a blessing, which chastened grief and strengthened love. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- I would do even the same for the slaveholder as for the slave, if the Lord brought him to my door in affliction. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- She then went away, walking on tiptoe out of the room, as if she supposed her young friend's affliction could be increased by noise. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears with mine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Secondly, Mr. Snagsby has to lay upon the table half a crown, his usual panacea for an immense variety of afflictions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Any girl reader who has suffered like afflictions will sympathize with poor Amy and wish her well through her task. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- It may be that if we knew more of such strange afflictions we might be the better able to alleviate their intensity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
录入:丽莎