afflict
发音
英 [əˈflɪkt]
美 [əˈflɪkt]
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- vt.
- 使受痛苦
- 折磨
- 使苦恼
单词词源
afflict 打击
前缀af-同ad-, 去，往。词根flict, 击打，见conflict, 冲突。 affluent 富裕的 前缀af-同ad-, 去，往。词根flu, 流动，流出。
双语例句
- 1. Economic woes afflict many at the moment .
- 经济灾难此刻折磨着许多人。
- 2. Financial crises afflict every kind of country .
- 不论哪种国家都会受到金融危机的折磨。
- 3. Above all , the divisions that many thought would afflict labour have not materialised .
- 重要的事，各个折磨人的部门不是瞬间产生的。
- 4. One of the reasons why greenlanders need danish subsidies is the social problems ( including poor health and bad school results ) that afflict so many indigenous groups in poorer places .
- 格陵兰岛之所以需要丹麦的救济，其中一个原因是社会问题（包括健康状况差以及学校教育的不合格）使得更为贫穷地区的土著居民保守折磨。
- 5. According to dijksterhuis 's theory , the subconscious is sometimes less prone to the biases that afflict the conscious mind , thus ensuring that an expert gives due weight to the most important factors .
- 按照dijksterhuis的理论，潜意识有时会更不易于发生那些折磨着有意识心智的偏差，从而保证专家对最重要的因素给予其应有的重视。