柯林斯詞典afflict /??fl?kt/ (afflicting,afflicted,afflicts) 1. V-T If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer. 睏擾[正式] Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades. 意大利受政治腐敗睏擾已數(shù)十年了。 There are two main problems which afflict people with hearing impairments. 有兩大問題睏擾有聽覺障礙的人。 返回 afflict劍橋詞典If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they suffer from it. 使痛苦；使苦惱；折磨 It is an illness that afflicts women more than men. 患這種疾病的女性多於男性。 a country afflicted by civil war 飽受內(nèi)戰(zhàn)蹂躪的國家 返回 afflict