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In their minds, it's a problem that people inflict upon themselves that could be solved if patients were motivated enough.
在他們看來，這是一個問題，人們給自己造成的，可以得到解決，如果病人有足夠的意志力。
“I spent all this time telling them we could continue to inflict pain on their loved one or we could make him comfortable,” he said, his hands still moving.
“我一直在和他們說，我們或者繼續給他們的親人造成痛苦或者我們可以讓他走的舒服一些，”他說的同時手仍然在微微發抖。
Either way, they were serene and unwilling to inflict pain on others—exactly like those who were given word of social acceptance.
在任一種情況下，他們都很平靜，不願對他人造成痛苦——完全像那些收到通知被社會接受的人。

But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.
And then, they're proud of it and they insist that I, not inflict, but rather induce you, invite you to do the same thing.
然後，他們引以爲豪竝且堅持認爲，我不是強迫，而是說服，邀請你去做同樣一件事。
麻省理工公開課 - 固態化學導論課程節選
It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.
就是彌爾頓的雄心和他智慧的勇氣,讓他去証實上帝是能強加給他創造的世界,這樣看起來專橫的控制的行爲。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選

With such different priorities the lead bargainer could inflict headaches on its U.S. competitors.
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