strick·en
adjective/ˈstrɪkən/
/ˈstrɪkən/
(formal)- seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation
受煎熬的；患病的；遭受挫折的 - She raised her stricken face and begged for help.
她仰起苦闷的脸，乞求帮助。 - We went to the aid of the stricken boat.
我们前去救助那艘失事的船。 - stricken with/by something Whole villages were stricken with the disease.
整村整村的人染上了这种病。 - He was stricken by a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday.
他在五十岁生日那天心脏病发作。
- She raised her stricken face and begged for help.
- (in compounds) seriously affected by the thing mentioned
遭受…的；受…之困的 - poverty-stricken families
贫困家庭
- poverty-stricken families