Affliction
[ə'flɪkʃ(ə)n]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
格伦錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
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
同義詞及反義詞：
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
艾拉編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- If you are in poverty or affliction I shall be truly glad to relieve you if I can,--I shall indeed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- 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. 維萊特.
- You've been visited with affliction, and I hope it may do you good; but you'd better have come here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- His anxiety, his eagerness, and affliction at this pass are pitiable to behold. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 維萊特.
- To keep a cottage night-school was one such form; and his affliction did not master his spirit as it might otherwise have done. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He visited the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and kept himself unspotted from the world. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The peerage contributes more four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I have not withheld money, you mean, where it could assuage affliction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In spite of this affliction, she looked unusually gay and graceful as she glided away. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I would do even the same for the slaveholder as for the slave, if the Lord brought him to my door in affliction. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears with mine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Secondly, Mr. Snagsby has to lay upon the table half a crown, his usual panacea for an immense variety of afflictions. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Any girl reader who has suffered like afflictions will sympathize with poor Amy and wish her well through her task. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It may be that if we knew more of such strange afflictions we might be the better able to alleviate their intensity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
錄入:丽莎