be afflicted

基本解释

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.
我受苦是與我有益，爲要使我學習你的律例。
In America, chimpanzees are being used to develop a vaccine for hepatitis C because they are the only creatures, other than humans, to be afflicted by the disease.
在美國，研究人員借助黑猩猩研制觝禦丙型肝炎的疫苗，這是因爲，除了人類以外，衹有黑猩猩會感染該病毒。
Mr Brown seemed to be afflicted by a sort of cognitive dissonance—still bellowing that his Labour government would continue raising public spending, in spite of the Treasury’s own forecasts.
佈朗先生似乎因某種“認知失調”----盡琯財政部已經做出了預算，他還在不著邊際地鼓吹他的工黨政府會繼續擴大開支----而備受折磨。

Short of a major rebuilding, we cannot now inflict upon Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden the great and instantaneous shock with which they should be afflicted.
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Through this device, it is predictable that, if the United States were to ratify this accord, we would be afflicted with business-hostile interference and regulations that would make the record of our domestic Environmental Protection Agency seem tame by comparison.
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That simple military logic explains the paralysis that afflicted the would-be peacemakers in Rome on July 26th (see article).
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