pain and difficulty or something that causes it折磨；痛苦Extra Examples- 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.他遭受了不幸的折磨。
- These poor people are in great affliction.这些可怜的人饱受折磨。
- We can never know when these afflictions will strike us.我们永远不知道这些苦难何时袭击我们。
- He bore his affliction with great dignity.他有尊严地承受着痛苦。
- The monks believed that the disease was an affliction sent by God.僧侣们认为这种疾病是上帝所发的苦难。
Topics Illnessc2Word OriginMiddle 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’.