afflicted
患病的,患病的人,患难与共,患难与共的
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- : greatly distressed or troubled by bodily or mental pain:The severity of these symptoms predicts how well the afflicted individuals can live independently and maintain employment.
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- : Usually the afflicted . a person or persons distressed or troubled in such a way:Behind each of these killer diseases is the pain of despair, loneliness, and loss in the lives of the bereaved and the afflicted.
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You see, the way that a virus afflicts you is dependent on an “incubation period”—the number of days between when you catch a pathogen and actually show symptoms.
Japan has not suffered from the soaring increases in infections and deaths that have afflicted the United States, but critics faulted Abe for failing to deal more swiftly and decisively enough to completely contain the virus.
In April 1955, scientists confirmed that a vaccine developed by researcher Jonas Salk had proved effective against polio, a debilitating and often fatal disease that afflicted tens of thousands of Americans a year.
Many medical science fiction texts depict diseases afflicting all of humanity which must put up a unified front or perish.
Undecidable questions have even arisen in physics, suggesting that Gödelian incompleteness afflicts not just math, but — in some ill-understood way — reality.
They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
Ortega has dismissed the allegations of autocracy and fraud that have afflicted his presidency as politically motivated.
Pat Roberts is in trouble for the same reasons that have afflicted many other senators.
He wanted to give a voice to the voiceless, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Silva concludes that America is afflicted by the socio-optic condition of “colorblind racism.”
The elder Mr. Weller drove a coach for twelve months, but, being with the gout, was compelled to retire.