affliction
affliction 英 [əˈflɪkʃn] 美 [əˈflɪkʃən]
n. 苦难；苦恼；折磨
名词复数:afflictions
- An affliction makes you suffer, but you have to deal with it anyway. Diseases are often said to be afflictions, but the word can mean just about anything that causes great suffering.
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- n. 苦难；苦恼；折磨
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1. It is hard to bear up under affliction.
受尽折磨仍不屈不挠是很不容易的。
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2. My god! Live or die, both are affliction for such a poor man like me.
我的天哪！对于像我这样的穷人而言，活着或者死去都是一种折磨。
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3. Compare the present occasion with such an affliction as that, and be thankful for the friends you have, instead of coveting more.
把现在的情况和这么一种苦恼比较一下，你就该感谢你已经有了朋友，不要再贪多啦。
- affliction (n.) c. 1300, affliccioun, "misery, sorrow, pain, distress" (originally especially "self-inflicted pain, self-mortification, religious asceticism"), from Old French afliction "act of humility, humiliation, mortification, punishment" (11c.) and directly from Latin afflictionem (nominative afflictio), noun of action from past participle stem of affligere (see afflict). Meaning "a cause of constant pain or sorrow" is from 1590s.
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