Malaria has been diagnosed on every continent, but sub-Saharan Africa is the region most afflicted.

每个大陆都诊断有疟疾案例，但亚撒哈非洲地区情况最严重。

A childhood stutter that had not afflicted him for twenty years started to return.

他小时候有过口吃，但已经20年没犯了，现在他又结巴起来。

And Hugh burst into tears, now more really afflicted than he had ever been yet.

休嚎啕大哭，从未像今天这样饱经痛苦折磨。

Let us move on to " afflict! "

接下来，我们说说“afflict”这个词。

All of them were afflicted with a feeling of sad helplessness.

他们都被一种悲哀无助的感情因扰。

“My granddaughter is afflicted by a crop of warts, sir, ” she told him.

“我孙女身上长了很多疣，先生，”老农妇他说。

The antiseizure drug levetiracetam appears to help some afflicted kitties.

癫痫控制药物左乙西似乎能够帮助一些癫痫发作的猫咪减轻痛苦。

In Africa alone, it afflicted 75,000 children annually.

仅在非洲，每年就有75000名儿童受到该病的折磨。

They were much afflicted by the cold.

他们深为严寒所苦。

The verb, " afflict, " also means, " to cause harm to."

动词“afflict”也有“造成伤害”的意思。

" All men are so afflicted, from time to time" .

" 每个人都会时不时做噩梦。"

Increasingly, Western life is afflicted by the paradoxes of progress.

西方人的生活会越来越多地被发展的悖论折磨着。

But the direct object of " afflict" is often the sufferer.

但“afflict”的直接宾语往往是患者。

Micrographia is often an early sign of Parkinson's and afflicts about five percent of patients.

写字过小症是帕金森的早期症状并且5%的患者都受到困扰。

Water-borne diseases sometimes afflict flood survivors.

水传播疾病有时会折磨洪水幸存者。

So… Alzheimer's. About six million people in U.S. are afflicted by this type of dementia.

说到阿尔茨海默病，美国大约有600万人患有这种痴呆症。

The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him.

坏心眼呀，怪脾气呀，能弄得别人非休假不可的东西他却从来不起作用。

Shortages of beds and oxygen afflicted many hospitals.

许多医院因病床和氧气短缺备受困扰。

Ironically, the disease most often afflicts impoverished people, because of a lack of proper nutrition and hygiene.

具有讽刺意味的是，由于缺乏适当的营养和卫生条件，这种疾病最常折磨穷人。

They were those eager to flout authority or those afflicted with cabin fever, if not Covid-19.

他们要么急于挑战权威，要么就患有幽闭症——如果不是患了新冠肺炎的话。