每日单词award（每日单词afflict）

afflict /əˈflɪkt/

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外刊例句

Now researchers at Imperial College and the Royal College of Art in London are developing a device called the ARC pen that vibrates to stimulate muscles in the hand. The vibrations could help Parkinsons patients' handwriting-in part by counteracting what's known as micrographia, which causes writing to be small and barely legible. Micrographia is often an early sign of Parkinson's and afflicts about five percent of patients.

来自伦敦帝国理工学院和皇家艺术学院的研究人员正在开发一种名为ARC震动笔的装置，它可以通过振动刺激手上的肌肉。这种振动可以帮助帕金森患者更好地写作，抵消所谓的写字过小症导致写字很小甚至几乎无法辨识的病症。写字过小症是帕金森的早期症状，并且困扰着百分之五的帕金森病人。

——《科学美国人》 基本释义 If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.

v. 折磨；使痛苦

追根溯源

单词afflict里的词根flict来自拉丁语fligere ，表示“打击”，所以，在英语里包含flict的单词，多与此相关：

conflic n/v. 冲突；斗争

inflict v. 使遭受（痛苦等）；给予（打击等）

affliction n. 苦难；折磨

conflicting adj. 冲突的；相矛盾的

影视例句

在动画电影《疯狂动物城》中，羊市长的阴谋被揭穿，那些受害的动物也得到了解救。新闻报道中就用到了今天的单词：

In related news, doctors say the Night Howlers' antidote is proving effective in rehabilitating the afflicted predators.

另外，医生宣称：午夜嚎叫的解药已让受害食肉动物逐渐恢复。