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An affliction is something that causes pain or suffering, especially a medical condition — a disease, a disability, a trouble the body or mind will not put down. People also use it more widely for a heavy sorrow or hardship, and older religious English uses it for trials of the spirit. It can name the thing that hurts, or the state of suffering. It is not a light word. A cold is not an affliction in ordinary talk, though a dramatic writer might call it one. Kind speech today often names the condition more , and leaves affliction for writing that wants that grave tone.
病痛；苦難
組成From Middle English affliction, affliccioun, from Old French afliction, from Latin afflīctiōnem (“pain, suffering, torment”), from afflīctō. By surface analysis, afflict + -ion.
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- afflictthe verb this noun is built from
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afflictionnoun/əˈflɪk.ʃən/
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A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
- BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
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Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
- She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。