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

• There are three crises afflicting Europe.
  目前有三场危机困扰着欧洲。
• While the probability of such a calamity afflicting the US may be small, it is not zero.
  尽管美国遭遇这种灾难的可能性很小，但并非完全不可能。
• But the increasingly acute personnel bottlenecks afflicting the Obama administration are likely to continue for weeks if not months.
  但困扰奥巴马（obama）政府、日益严峻的人事瓶颈问题，可能会持续数周如果不是数月的话。
• Uncontrolled acceleration is a euphemism for the disturbing problem jammed accelerator pedals at risk of afflicting millions of Toyota cars and trucks that the company has recalled in recent months.
  丰田公司（Toyota）最近几个月召回了数百万辆轿车和卡车，它们都可能存在一个令人不安的问题油门踏板被卡，加速失控只是这个问题的委婉说法。
• 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。
• Losing sleep became insomnia gradually, a chronic disease afflicting me in my life.
  积之既久，失眠成病，成了折磨我几十年的终生痼疾。
• Yet the idiosyncrasies of the eurozone should not distract us from the general nature of the fiscal crisis that is now afflicting most Western economies.
  不过，这场财政危机正折磨着多数西方经济体，欧元区的特性不应使我们忽视其一般性。
• Shares in new-economy sectors have attracted the greatest speculative interest, whereas the broader economic slowdown is afflicting its older industries.
  新兴产业领域的股票吸引的投机兴趣最大，而宏观经济放缓影响的是较为传统的行业。
• In many accounts, the BBC's current agonies are integrated with the pervasive apprehension afflicting the TV industry.
  在很大程度上，BBC眼下的麻烦是与困扰电视业的普遍担忧相伴随的问题。
• Just as the algae problem appears to be worsening, Xinhua news agency said this week pest-killers were trying to prevent a plague of locusts in Inner Mongolia from descending on Beijing-adding to the sense of near-biblical woes afflicting China.
  就在绿藻问题似乎正在恶化之际，新华社报道称，害虫防治人员上周正试图防止内蒙古出现的蝗虫灾害侵袭北京。这条消息使正在困扰中国的、近乎圣经故事般的灾祸感更加强烈。