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Перевод: afflict
[глагол] огорчать; приводить в отчаяние; беспокоить; причинять боль; причинять страдание; тревожить; поражать (о болезни)
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two great problems afflict the chemical industry at the moment, according to Ray Knowland, managing director of BP - the environment and the recession.
- The report confirms that a diet rich in vitamin C can help to prevent the development of cataracts, which frequently afflict the over-65s.
- It's a metal belt-drive layout, without the resulting weight penalties of poor performance and fuel consumption that afflict most other clutchless cars.
- 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.
- But I am conscious of a sense of contradiction that clearly did not afflict those illustrious figures.
- The multiple disturbances caused by these developments afflict not only the south, but the north too.
- Similar problems afflict outdoor pigs, so that for both species the problems of welfare are less straightforward than cage-haters will allow.
- "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.
- Firstly, the illness tends to afflict the very old, the group most likely - largely through widowhood - to be living alone.
- 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.
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