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

• 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。
• Hopes for a eurozone recovery suffered a blow yesterday as the recession afflicting the 17-nation bloc became the longest since the single currency was born at the turn of the century.
  欧元区复苏的希望昨日遭受打击。昨日发布的经济数据意味着，有17个成员国的欧元区经历衰退的时间，已创下自世纪之交欧元诞生以来的最长纪录。
• If Mr Greenspan had been more interested in regulatory matters during his tenure at the head of the Fed, many of the current problems afflicting the US banking system and mortgage borrowers might have been avoided or at least mitigated.
  如果格林斯潘在担任美联储主席期间，对监管事宜给予更多的关注，那么许多当前困扰着美国银行业体系和抵押贷款借款人的问题或许就可以避免，或至少会有所减轻。
• But few corporate crises are as ugly and strange as the one afflicting Olympus Corp.
  不过很少有哪家陷入危机的公司会难看到奥林巴斯的地步，或是情形蹊跷到它的地步。
• A fatal cancer is afflicting her.
  致命癌症在折磨着她。
• When these individuals were moved to another field the number of flies afflicting the herd increased.
  当这些释放不同化学信号的牛被转移到其它地方时，整个牛群中蚊蝇的数量马上又会增多起来。
• And China's heavy reliance on exports and foreign investment ensures that the uncertainties now afflicting the global economy are haunting the Chinese as well.
  此外，由于中国经济高度依赖出口和外国投资，这就使得如今全球经济的不确定性也在对中国人造成不利影响。
• Worrying about whether they are at the right party is, however, only a subset of the wider concern afflicting Davos Man and Woman.
  不过，担心自己是否来对了派对，只是萦绕在达沃斯男男女女心头的忧虑的一部分。
• I would then fear a drastic drop in stock market turnover, further fuelling the liquidity problems afflicting the global economy.
  那样的话，我担心股市成交量会急剧下降，进一步加剧影响全球经济的流动性问题。
• Spanning the full spectrum of medicine and afflicting people of all ages and ethnic groups, these diseases encompass some of the most common, severe, and disabling conditions affecting Americans.
  这些疾病跨越了整个医疗系统，困扰着各个年龄和种族的人们，而且包括了多种在美国人中常见、严重的致残性疾病。