Afflict
[ə'flɪkt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) cause physical pain or suffering in; 'afflict with the plague'.
(verb.) cause great unhappiness for; distress; 'she was afflicted by the death of her parents'.
編輯:鲁弗斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(v. t.) To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.
(v. t.) To make low or humble.
(p. p. & a.) Afflicted.
編輯:菲利普
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Grieve, distress, trouble, torment, agonize, plague, pain, hurt, harass, wound, exercise, grind, persecute, smite, make sorrowful.
校對:伦道夫
解釋/意思:
v.t. to give continued pain distress or grief: to harass or vex.—pa.p. Afflict′ed harassed by disease of body or mind: suffering.—adj. Afflict′ing distressing.—n. Afflic′tion state or cause of pain or distress: misery: loss of friends sickness persecution. &c.—adj. Afflict′ive causing distress.
整理:米歇尔
例句/造句/用法:
- The spirits of evil bring mal adies upon us; the gods heal the diseases that afflict us. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- A good patriot, said the other, could hardly have been more afflicted if the Aristocrat had drawn a blank. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But yet hope was there none, neither to the afflicted to be delivered, neither yet to the purchaser [i. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- This eases the afflicted heart, he said. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What the poets and story-tellers say--that the wicked prosper and the righteous are afflicted, or that justice is another's gain? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The little children were in a pitiable condition--they all had sore eyes, and were otherwise afflicted in various ways. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Elinor, too, was deeply afflicted; but still she could struggle, she could exert herself. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It did not seem at all comical to Meg, who kissed and caressed the afflicted heroine in the tenderest manner. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was a sad time, a time which it afflicts me to think of or to write of now. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Hence the deluge of half-observations, of verbal ideas, and unassimilated knowledge which afflicts the world. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This law established his tyranny; and for one mischief which it prevented, ten thousand evils, horrible and afflicting, sprung up in its place. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I had before, in the public papers, met with the afflicting news that letter contained. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Both the sisters seemed struck: not shocked or appalled; the tidings appeared in their eyes rather momentous than afflicting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
整理:劳埃德