plague/afflict/inflict.导航词义：使受痛苦

1. plague:v. 折磨，使苦恼.指糟糕的事情（如病痛、问题等）在很长一段时间内不断困扰某个人、组织、地区等，通常用被动语态。

He was plagued by insomnia.

他受到失眠的折磨。

Labour shortages continued to plague that area.

用工荒继续困扰该地区。

2. afflict:v. 使痛苦，折磨.指疾病、战争、贫困等让某人、某地区等饱受折磨，常用被动语态。

About 20% of that country's population is afflicted by famine.

那个国家20%左右的居民饱受饥荒之苦。

How many people around the world are afflicted with arthritis?

世界上有多少人为关节炎所折磨？

3. inflict:v. 使承受，使遭受.指使人、机构、地区等遭受不愉快的事。

The strikes inflicted serious damage on the company.

罢工给公司造成了巨大损失。

Peasants still had to pay the rent despite all of the damage inflicted by the storm.

尽管暴风雪造成了各种损失，农民依然得交租。

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1·It delves into everything from seasickness, jet lag and the hazards of camels to malaria and plague.

它探究了从晕船、时差和骆驼的危害到疟疾和瘟疫的一切。

2·Public health groups applauded the approved tax as a step toward fixing certain lasting health issues that plague Americans.

公共卫生组织对批准的税收法案表示欢迎，认为这是在解决困扰美国人的某些长期健康问题方面迈出的一步。

3·Iconoclasts, either because they were born that way or through learning, have found ways to work around the perceptual shortcuts that plague most people.

要么天生如此，要么后天习得，总之传统叛逆者找到了困扰大多数人的认知捷径的替代方法。

4·Spotted fever in purples for example, which we call measles, was a significant cause of death as was the plague, which we don't have anymore, thank goodness.

拿紫色斑疹热作为例子，也就是我们所说的麻疹，和鼠疫一样，是导致死亡的重要原因，谢天谢地，现在已经没有鼠疫了。

5·After the plague had swept the city of Milan in 1484 and 85, he turned his attention to town planning and made several designs for churches and other buildings.

在1484年和85年鼠疫席卷米兰之后，他将注意力转向了城市规划，并为教堂和其他建筑做了一些设计。

6·The city is under threat from a plague of rats.

这座城市面临着鼠患的威胁。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·Now I will plague and punish thee at thy own house.

现在我要在你家里责罚你。

8·In 1616-1619 an epidemic, possibly of bubonic or pneumonic plague, swept coastal New England, killing as many as nine out of ten.

1616-1619年，一场可能是淋巴腺鼠疫或肺鼠疫的流行病席卷了新英格兰沿海地区，十人中有九人因此死亡。

9·Take bubonic plague for example. The disease is most commonly transmitted to humans through flea bites, and the fleas live on rodents.

以黑死病为例。这种疾病最常通过跳蚤叮咬传染给人类，跳蚤生存在啮齿类动物上。

10·The agent caused a disease called fowl plague.

这种病原体引起了一种叫做“鸡疫”的疾病。

灾祸

1·Will colloidal silver help us fight the plague?

微粒的银可以帮助我们抗击灾祸吗？

天灾

1·But the transgressors changed the word from that which had been given them; so We sent on the transgressors a plague from heaven, for that they infringed (Our command) repeatedly.

但不义的人改变了他们所奉的嘱言，故我降天灾于不义者，那是由于他们的犯罪。

(1)bubonic plaguen. [医]黑死病

(1)lung plague牛肺疫，牛传染性胸膜肺炎

(1)black plague鼠疫；黑死病

(1)great plaguen. 大瘟疫（指1665年流行于伦敦的鼠疫）

(1)devouring plague吞噬瘟疫（游戏中用语）