affliction
/əˈflɪkʃən/noun
1- something that causes pain or suffering痛源, 苦事：
a crippling affliction of the nervous system.
由神经系统造成严重伤害的痛源。
1.1
- mass noun pain; suffering痛苦; 苦楚：
poor people in great affliction.
忍受巨大痛苦的穷人。
1.2
- Astrology an instance of one celestial body afflicting another【占星】（天体的）相互处于应力星位。
词源
Middle 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 （see AFFLICT）.