inflict
单词辨析：
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。
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？
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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An attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective.
意在夺取或造成破坏或摧毁目标的攻击。
Look at all the war and death that humans inflict on each other.
看看人类强加于彼此的战争和死亡吧。
Impose or inflict forcefully. Religion and politics are powerful forces in society.
宗教和政治在社会上有强大的影响力。
How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the Western forces during the Gulf war?
在海湾战争中，伊拉克造成了西方国家多国部队多少人死亡？
The exhibition was intended to spotlight the damage drugs inflict upon society and family.
展览会的目的是集中揭露毒品对社会和家庭造成的危害。
To inflict massive physical damage in close combat will always remain their primal strength though.
造成巨大的物质损害密切打击将始终保持其原始的力量了。