单词	afflict
释义	afflictaf‧flict /əˈflɪkt/ ●○○ verb [transitive] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINafflict Origin: 1300-1400 Latin past participle of affligere ‘to throw down’, from ad- ‘to’ + fligere ‘to hit’ Verb Table VERB TABLE afflict Simple Form Present I, you, we, they afflict he, she, it afflicts Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they afflicted Present perfect I, you, we, they have afflicted he, she, it has afflicted Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had afflicted Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will afflict Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have afflicted Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES This type of pneumonia frequently afflicts elderly people. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A similar problem may be afflicting the Telnet application. Apparently, mental illness is one of the few diseases requiring hospitalization where those afflicted are released before they are cured. He is rueful, polite, mildly disappointed, and afflicted by a low-key melancholy. He must learn to relax more, not be racked by the tortured tenseness that had afflicted him for the past weeks. Kidney stone disease afflicts mostly men between 20 and 55. Nerves afflict everyone in some way, and without them acting would be the poorer. Primary pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare, afflicting about 1, 500 people in the United States. This particular example highlights two additional shortcomings which afflict our conventional political institutions. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► people · Mr. King I am afflicted today by people who prepare their supplementaries and do not bother to listen to the answers.· Of Headaches and Painkillers Headaches afflict millions of people every day.· A spiritual vacuum afflicts many people.· Those who are already afflicted are sick people and need our care as do all sick patients. ► problem · A similar problem may be afflicting the Telnet application.· And those are not problems that afflict politics only.· But traffic is only one of the population-related problems that afflict a city like Cairo.· Clinton also asked Glickman to report back within 30 days with recommendations to help alleviate debt problems afflicting cattle producers. to affect someone or something in an unpleasant way, and make them sufferbe afflicted with/by something a country afflicted by famineGRAMMAR Afflict is often passive in this meaning.
随便看	unarguable unarguably unarmed unashamed unashamedly unasked unasked-for unassailable unassuming unattached unattainable unattended unattractive unattractively unauthorized unavailable unavailing unavoidable unavoidably unaware unawares unbalance unbalanced unbearable unbearably

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