简单释义：

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v. 折磨；使痛苦

网络 使苦恼；一再地打击--折磨；困扰

变形：

过去分词：afflicted  现在分词：afflicting  第三人称单数：afflicts  

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完整释义：

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v.

1.折磨;患及;受磨难,苦难,受苦
2.使苦恼,折磨
3.使身体受痛苦;使苦恼
4.提炼出来

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例句：

1. And go not after strange gods to serve them, and adore them: nor provoke me to wrath by the works of your hands, and I will not afflict you.
   不要追随其他的神祇，事奉朝拜，以你们手做的东西来激怒我，你们就不致遭遇灾祸。

2. Unlike hernias in men, which are far more common, those that afflict women are usually small and internal and rarely cause an obvious bulge.
   和人们熟悉男性疝气不同，女性疝气通常体积较小，位于腹内，很少出现明显的突起。

3. Also script-based Web sites are more prone to bugs or even crashes (of course, I speak for myself; bugs do not afflict your code).
   另外，基于脚本的网站更容易出现错误，甚至崩溃（当然，我是在说自己；错误不会困扰您的代码）。

4. Barring accidents, most people now go on until they die of one of the diseases that afflict the old, such as heart disease or cancer.
   如不发生意外，多数人能够一直活下去，直到他们死于像心脏病或癌症那样折磨老年人的疾病。

5. all curable ~es that afflict mankind, the hardest to cure, and the one most likely to leave its victim a chronic invalid, is adolescence.
   折磨人类的所有可治之病中，最难治愈，最可能使患者成为慢性病人的，是青春期。

6. They also have power to turn water into blood and to afflict the earth with any plague as often as they wish.
   对水也有权柄，能使水变血；几时他们愿意，就能以各种灾祸打击大地。

7. Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to give to him that is in distress.
   不要扰乱忧苦人的心灵，也不要迟延接济有急难的人。

8. Nor does it mean that this darkening outlook on life is necessarily going to afflict you.
   也不意味着你的人生中一定会有此番暗淡光景。