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

• It looks more like a systemic problem afflicting a broad swath of the industry.
  看样子，这是个大面积困扰银行业的系统性问题。
• Within a few months, China will release a plan expected to address how growing cities can avoid the big city disease afflicting Beijing.
  未来数月中国料将发布一项计划，其目标预计将是解决以下问题：发展中的城市如何避免患上目前困扰北京的大城市病。
• 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。
• This stands in contrast with the many redundancies afflicting the local operations of investment banks, hedge funds and private equity firms.
  这与投资银行、对冲基金和私人股本公司在华业务的裁员活动形成对比。
• 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。
• 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。
• Violent crime is only one of the maladies afflicting modern society.
  暴力犯罪仅仅是危害社会的弊病之一。
• But pre-race nerves this year are afflicting the sport as a whole as much as the drivers themselves.
  但今年，赛前紧张不仅折磨着车手，同样也折磨着整项赛事。
• Now a similar kind of long, slow decline may be afflicting printer industry.
  现在，一场性质类似、旷日持久的衰退正在向打印机行业袭来。
• 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。