af·flic·tion
noun/əˈflɪkʃn/
/əˈflɪkʃn/
[uncountable, countable] (formal)- pain and difficulty or something that causes it
折磨；痛苦 - She suffered terrible afflictions in her life.
她一生遭受了可怕的苦难。
Extra ExamplesTopics Health problemsc2- She suffered a painful affliction that left her bed-bound.
她遭受了痛苦的折磨，导致她卧床不起。 - Like many other people, I have a terrible affliction where I romanticize the past.
像许多其他人一样，我有一个可怕的痛苦，那就是我把过去浪漫化了。 - the increasingly common affliction of smartphone addiction
智能手机成瘾日益普遍 - He suffers from an unfortunate affliction.
他遭受不幸的痛苦。 - These poor people are in great affliction.
这些可怜的人正处于极大的苦难之中。 - We can never know when these afflictions will strike us.
我们永远不知道这些痛苦什么时候会袭击我们。 - He bore his affliction with great dignity.
他以极大的尊严承受着苦难。 - The monks believed that the disease was an affliction sent by God.
僧侣们相信这种疾病是上帝赐予的灾难。
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘infliction of pain or humiliation’, specifically ‘religious self-mortification’): via Old French from Latin afflictio(n-), from the verb affligere, from ad- ‘to’ + fligere ‘to strike, dash’. - She suffered terrible afflictions in her life.