Affliction

(noun.) a cause of great suffering and distress.

(noun.) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health.

(noun.) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity.

希尔达整理

• If you are in poverty or affliction I shall be truly glad to relieve you if I can,--I shall indeed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Tears are given them here for meat and drink--bread of affliction and waters of affliction--their recompence comes hereafter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• You've been visited with affliction, and I hope it may do you good; but you'd better have come here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• His anxiety, his eagerness, and affliction at this pass are pitiable to behold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To keep a cottage night-school was one such form; and his affliction did not master his spirit as it might otherwise have done. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He visited the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and kept himself unspotted from the world. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The peerage contributes more four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She thanked him for a thousand thousand kind offices and proofs of steadfast friendship to her in her affliction. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I am sensible of having felt that a dignity attached to me among the rest of the boys, and that I was important in my affliction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I have not withheld money, you mean, where it could assuage affliction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In spite of this affliction, she looked unusually gay and graceful as she glided away. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Sacred moments, when heart talked to heart in the silence of the night, turning affliction to a blessing, which chastened grief and strengthened love. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I would do even the same for the slaveholder as for the slave, if the Lord brought him to my door in affliction. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She then went away, walking on tiptoe out of the room, as if she supposed her young friend's affliction could be increased by noise. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears with mine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Secondly, Mr. Snagsby has to lay upon the table half a crown, his usual panacea for an immense variety of afflictions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Any girl reader who has suffered like afflictions will sympathize with poor Amy and wish her well through her task. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It may be that if we knew more of such strange afflictions we might be the better able to alleviate their intensity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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