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

• 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。
• 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。
• In many accounts, the BBC's current agonies are integrated with the pervasive apprehension afflicting the TV industry.
  在很大程度上，BBC眼下的麻烦是与困扰电视业的普遍担忧相伴随的问题。
• But pre-race nerves this year are afflicting the sport as a whole as much as the drivers themselves.
  但今年，赛前紧张不仅折磨着车手，同样也折磨着整项赛事。
• 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。
• At first, other countries resisted this trend, leading to concerns in the us that a peculiarly American disease was afflicting its culture and labour market.
  起初，这股趋势没有出现在其他国家，以致美国国内产生了一种担忧：美国的文化和劳动力市场患上了一种本国特有的病症。
• 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。
• Now a similar kind of long, slow decline may be afflicting printer industry.
  现在，一场性质类似、旷日持久的衰退正在向打印机行业袭来。
• Such an approach would not only ease transport congestion but also benefit the Chinese economy overall and limit the air pollution afflicting much of china.
  这样的方法不仅能减轻交通堵塞，也能让中国经济整体受益，限制影响中国大部分地区的空气污染问题。
• 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。