afflicting

英 [əˈflɪktɪŋ]

美 [əˈflɪktɪŋ]

v.  折磨; 使痛苦
afflict的现在分词

IELTS

柯林斯词典

• VERB 折磨;使痛苦
  If youare afflicted bypain, 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 afflictedare 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。

双语例句

• Violent crime is only one of the maladies afflicting modern society.
  暴力犯罪仅仅是危害社会的弊病之一。
• There are three crises afflicting Europe.
  目前有三场危机困扰着欧洲。
• But the increasingly acute personnel bottlenecks afflicting the Obama administration are likely to continue for weeks if not months.
  但困扰奥巴马（obama）政府、日益严峻的人事瓶颈问题，可能会持续数周如果不是数月的话。
• This stands in contrast with the many redundancies afflicting the local operations of investment banks, hedge funds and private equity firms.
  这与投资银行、对冲基金和私人股本公司在华业务的裁员活动形成对比。
• Just as the algae problem appears to be worsening, Xinhua news agency said this week pest-killers were trying to prevent a plague of locusts in Inner Mongolia from descending on Beijing-adding to the sense of near-biblical woes afflicting China.
  就在绿藻问题似乎正在恶化之际，新华社报道称，害虫防治人员上周正试图防止内蒙古出现的蝗虫灾害侵袭北京。这条消息使正在困扰中国的、近乎圣经故事般的灾祸感更加强烈。
• While the probability of such a calamity afflicting the US may be small, it is not zero.
  尽管美国遭遇这种灾难的可能性很小，但并非完全不可能。
• But few corporate crises are as ugly and strange as the one afflicting Olympus Corp.
  不过很少有哪家陷入危机的公司会难看到奥林巴斯的地步，或是情形蹊跷到它的地步。
• When these individuals were moved to another field the number of flies afflicting the herd increased.
  当这些释放不同化学信号的牛被转移到其它地方时，整个牛群中蚊蝇的数量马上又会增多起来。
• A fatal cancer is afflicting her.
  致命癌症在折磨着她。
• Losing sleep became insomnia gradually, a chronic disease afflicting me in my life.
  积之既久，失眠成病，成了折磨我几十年的终生痼疾。