be afflicted

基本解释

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.
我受苦是与我有益，为要使我学习你的律例。
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.
在美国，研究人员借助黑猩猩研制抵御丙型肝炎的疫苗，这是因为，除了人类以外，只有黑猩猩会感染该病毒。
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.
布朗先生似乎因某种“认知失调”----尽管财政部已经做出了预算，他还在不着边际地鼓吹他的工党政府会继续扩大开支----而备受折磨。

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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