affliction

affliction
noun
  1. something that causes pain or suffering
    痛源,苦事
    a crippling affliction of the nervous system.
    由神经系统造成严重伤害的痛源。
    ■[mass noun]pain; suffering
    痛苦;苦楚
    poor people in great affliction.
    忍受巨大痛苦的穷人。
    ■(Astrology)an instance of one celestial body afflicting another
    (占星)(天体的)相互处于应力星位
语源
  1. Middle English (originally in the sense 'infliction of pain or humiliation', specifically 'religious self-mortification'): via Old French from Latin afflictio(n-), from the verb affligere (see afflict)
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