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afflict

/əˈflɪkt/📚 9849六级托福雅思

If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer. ^困扰

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（提供视频、音频及笔记等可系统性学习）: Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy afflict 动词: 使苦恼，折磨

单词造句:

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。}