affliction
noun /əˈflɪkʃn/
/əˈflɪkʃn/
[uncountable, countable] (formal)- pain and difficulty or something that causes it
折磨；痛苦 Topics Illnessc2- Deafness is a terrible affliction.
耳聋是一种可怕的痛苦。 - He suffered from an affliction of the eyes from an early age.
他从小就患有眼疾。 - He suffers from an unfortunate affliction.
他遭受不幸的痛苦。 - These poor people are in great affliction.
这些穷人非常痛苦。 - 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.
他以极大的尊严忍受着痛苦。 - The monks believed that the disease was an affliction sent by God.
僧侣们认为这种疾病是上帝派来的。
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, from ad- ‘to’ + fligere ‘to strike, dash’. - Deafness is a terrible affliction.