adj. afflictive
贫穷的恶魔，奥威尔写道，在它从身体上和精神上腐蚀人时，并不会带给人它造成的全部痛苦。
The evil of poverty, wrote Orwell, is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually.
我们对灾害带给人们的痛苦感同身受，深知患难真情之可贵。
We know how much pain they can bring and what genuine friendship means in times of tribulations.
尼采写道：“希望是万恶之首，带给人无尽的痛苦折磨。”
JJ: Nietzsche wrote:"Hope is the worst of evils for it prolongs the torment of man."
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