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单词 affliction
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affliction

noun
/əˈflɪkʃn/
/əˈflɪkʃn/
[uncountable, countable] (formal)
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  1. pain and difficulty or something that causes it
    Extra Examples
    • Deafness is a terrible affliction.
    • He suffered from an affliction of the eyes from an early age.
    • He suffers from an unfortunate affliction.
    • These poor people are in great affliction.
    • We can never know when these afflictions will strike us.
    • He bore his affliction with great dignity.
    • The monks believed that the disease was an affliction sent by God.
    Topics Illnessc2
    Word 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’.
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