Перевод слова

Перевод: afflict

[глагол]
огорчать; приводить в отчаяние; беспокоить; причинять боль; причинять страдание; тревожить; поражать (о болезни)

Тезаурус:

1. Last week while Bobby Robson was surrounded by players and coaches, knee-deep in the paranoia that appears to afflict the majority of football managers, Charlton was fishing in Ayrshire, not seeking relief from cumulative tension but simply enjoying life.
2. We never question that feeling, we just go on in our habitual ways until we are stopped short by one of the many illnesses that afflict our civilization today.
3. A slow-growing soil bacterium, good at DNA repair, might require weeks, even a couple of months, for its global gene pool to undergo as many mutations as afflict the world's E. coli ; but even so, the potential of eubacteria for rapid mutation is phenomenal.
4. Two great problems afflict the chemical industry at the moment, according to Ray Knowland, managing director of BP - the environment and the recession.
5. The report confirms that a diet rich in vitamin C can help to prevent the development of cataracts, which frequently afflict the over-65s.
6. It's a metal belt-drive layout, without the resulting weight penalties of poor performance and fuel consumption that afflict most other clutchless cars.
7. Sir: Nicholas Baker's perception of adoption (letter, 10 October) perpetuates the destructive secrecy and denial that afflict all the people involved in traditional adoption practices.
8. But I am conscious of a sense of contradiction that clearly did not afflict those illustrious figures.
9. The multiple disturbances caused by these developments afflict not only the south, but the north too.
10. Similar problems afflict outdoor pigs, so that for both species the problems of welfare are less straightforward than cage-haters will allow.
11. "For centuries he has lived close to calamity: drought and flood threaten his crops and beasts; diseases, infertility and death afflict his wife and children; ghosts disturb his peace.
12. Firstly, the illness tends to afflict the very old, the group most likely - largely through widowhood - to be living alone.
13. Now suffering, in the proper sense, is caused precisely by external factors affecting us, physical conditions or the actions of other human beings which afflict or constrain us.