afflict

verb

1. 折磨；使痛苦
   to affect sb/sth in an unpleasant or harmful way
   1. About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease.
      全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。
   2. Aid will be sent to the afflicted areas.
      将向受灾地区提供援助。

1. VERB 折磨;使痛苦
   If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
   1. Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades...
      几十年来意大利一直饱受政治腐败之苦。
   2. There are two main problems which afflict people with hearing impairments...
      听力有障碍的人们主要受到两大问题的困扰。
   3. The afflicted person should keep off solid foods and drink plenty of fluids.
      病人不应吃固体食物而要多喝流质食物。
   4. The afflicted are people who are afflicted.
      受苦的人
   5. It is food that the afflicted want now.
      受苦的人们现在需要的是食物。

1. The afflicted person should keep off solid foods and drink plenty of fluids.
   病人不应吃固体食物而要多喝流质食物。
2. Famine and war still afflict mankind.
   饥饿和战争仍使人类遭受痛苦。
3. They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
   耶和华阿，他们强压你的百姓，苦害你的产业。
4. Although I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no more.
   犹大阿，我虽然使你受苦，却不再使你受苦。
5. It is difficult to unravel the origins of the divisive feuds among grown-ups that afflict institutions of education.
   很难解开大人的分裂争斗的起源困扰的教育机构。
6. AIDS and cancer are maladies that afflict humanity.
   爱滋病和癌症是折磨人类的疾病。
7. But animals are generally not susceptible to the diseases that afflict humans.
   但是动物对困扰人类的疾病往往不易感染。
8. And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
   我必因所罗门所行的使大卫后裔受患难，但不至于永远。
9. There are many illnesses, which afflict old people.
   这里有许多的疾病，折磨这些老人。
10. I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent, and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens.
    我理解折磨着这块大陆的对战争的恐惧和分裂的痛苦，我也向你们保证来自我的国家的努力以帮助你们克服这些包袱。
11. I wish you would not afflict me with your constant complains.
    我希望你不要总是抱怨，真让我心烦。
12. A shower of blood shall fall, and a dire famine shall afflict mankind.
    一阵血雨落下，可怕的饥荒会折磨人类。
13. The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.
    耶和华必用癫狂，眼瞎，心惊攻击你。
14. They may grant you power, honour, and riches but afflict you with servitude, infamy, and poverty.
    他们可以给你权力、荣誉和财富，但却用奴役、耻辱和贫穷来折磨你。
15. If God afflict your enemies, surely that ought to suffice you.
    如果上帝使你的敌人苦恼，当然你就应该知足了。
16. Handling of diseases that afflict large populations are usually rather stringent.
    群发性疾病的处理一般要比较严格。
17. Speaks well, but that she offers real solutions to the problems that afflict the nation.
    演说的不错，但是她为困扰国家的问题提供实际的解决方案。
18. The one who afflict me and can't let me pass is myself.
    不放过我的折磨我的是我自己而已；
19. Afflict those who oppress us, who insult and treat us with contempt.
    求你惩罚那些欺压和傲慢侮辱我们的人！
20. For much of its history, the industry has focused chiefly on the diseases that afflict people in rich countries, while largely neglecting research into diseases of the poor.
    在这些公司发展历程中的绝大部分时间里，他们都将首要的注意力集中在困扰发达国家民众的多种疾病上，同时却极大地忽视了对贫穷国家民众疾病的研究。
21. Finally, a global health fund could be set up to purchase licenses from developers of new medicines essential to treating HIV/ AIDS and other diseases that disproportionately afflict poor countries.
    最后，可以建立全球卫生基金用于从开发者手中购买治疗艾滋病和其他对贫困国家影响较大的疾病所必需的最新药品许可证。
22. -To have, by then, halted, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/ AIDS, the scourge of malaria and other major diseases that afflict humanity.
    -届时制止并开始扭转艾滋病毒/艾滋病的蔓延、消灭疟疾及其他折磨人类的主要疾病的祸害。
23. The artistic temperament is a disease that afflict amateur.
    艺术家脾气，是折磨业余爱好者的一种病。
24. Financial crises afflict every kind of country.
    金融危机侵害着每一种类型的国家。
25. But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
    我必将这杯，递在苦待你的人手中。
26. For it is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.
    这是你们全休息的安息日，应克己苦身：这是永久的法令。
27. Scleroderma, an autoimmune disease, tends to afflict middle-age women and can affect many parts of the body, inside and out.
    硬皮病，一种自身免疫疾病，多发于中年妇女，可以影响到躯体内外的多个部位。
28. High mortality rates still afflict children of the third world.
    高死亡率仍然给第三世界的孩子？带来苦难。
29. We cannot forget the intense sufferings that have afflicted and still afflict so many of our brothers and sisters in the world: thousands of innocent victims in the deadly attacks of11 September;
    我们不能不想到仍在折磨世界上许多我们的兄弟姊妹的巨大痛苦：九月十一日极其严重的袭击事件中成千上万的无辜牺牲者；
30. As people open their hearts to this natural disaster, the world is being asked not to forget the no less destructive man-made disasters that afflict fragile states across the globe.
    当人们对这一自然灾害倾心相助时，世界也不应忘记那些折磨着全球脆弱国家的、破坏性不亚于自然灾害的人为灾害。

  plague afflict inflict【导航词义：使受痛苦】

  plague v. 折磨，使苦恼

〔辨析〕指糟糕的事情（如病痛、问题等）在很长一段时间内不断困扰某个人、组织、地区等，通常用被动语态。

  afflict v. 〈正式〉使痛苦，折磨

〔辨析〕指疾病、战争、贫困等让某人、某地区等饱受折磨，常用被动语态。

  inflict v. 使承受，使遭受

〔辨析〕指使人、机构、地区等遭受不愉快的事。

verb

1. cause physical pain or suffering in
   1. afflict with the plague

   Synonym:    smite

2. cause great unhappiness for
   1. she was afflicted by the death of her parents