| 单词 | afflict |
| 释义 | af·flict 1. obsolete a. < that we might afflict ourselves before our God — Ezra 8:21 (Authorized Version) > b. < in hope to find better abode, and my afflicted powers to settle here on earth — John Milton > 2. a. < 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. < 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: < 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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