英语词汇“afflict”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	afflict
释义	af·flict \əˈflikt\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English afflicten, from Latin afflictus, past participle of affligere to cast down, deject, from ad- + fligere to strike — more at profligate 1. obsolete a. : humble < that we might afflict ourselves before our God — Ezra 8:21 (Authorized Version) > b. : to strike down : overthrow < in hope to find better abode, and my afflicted powers to settle here on earth — John Milton > 2. a. : to distress severely so as to cause continued suffering < cutting off the food supply and afflicting the people with dearth — J.G.Frazer > < strife between the Emperors and Popes which afflicted the Middle Ages — Herbert Agar > b. : trouble < the mummers themselves were not afflicted with any such feeling for their art — Thomas Hardy > : injure, damage < that debasement of the verbal currency which afflicts terms used in advertising — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: torture, torment, rack, grill, try: afflict is a general term that is applicable to most situations involving distress or difficulty. It is often interchangeable with the following words although it lacks their more specific suggestions and stresses the fact of affliction rather than the manner. torture is the strongest word in the group in suggesting most extreme infliction of pain, suffering, anguish, strain < until his eye be tortured out with fire — P.B.Shelley > < and laid the strips and jagged ends of flesh even once more, and slacked the sinew's knot of every tortured limb — Robert Browning > Although the two may be interchangeable, torment may have a less extreme suggestion than torture and may imply greater continuity or customary practice < it was inevitable that the older boys should become mischievous louts; they bullied and tormented and corrupted the younger boys — H.G.Wells > < other epochs had been tormented by the misery of the existence and the terror of the unknown — Humanist > rack is likely to suggest a straining or wrenching with stress, duress, disease, pain, or emotion < Thucydides' world was a place racked and ruined and disintegrated by war — Edith Hamilton > < a lean and nameless phantom racked by a consumptive cough — American Scholar > Although grill orig. suggested the torment of being broiled, it has weakened and is likely to suggest less pain than the preceding words; it is usually used in situations involving stringent cross-examination or, in the present participle, in situations involving much vexation and agitation < representatives of Intelligence … they gave his lordship a respectful but thorough grilling — Upton Sinclair > < a grilling afternoon trying to work despite confusions and interruptions > try implies that which tests one's endurance, stamina, control < other men were tried by puny ailments, were not searched and shaken by one tremendous shock — George Meredith > < it tried her that he gave her no encouragement — Willa Cather >
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