affliction
n
(fml 文)
1 [U] pain; suffering; distress 疼痛; 折磨; 悲痛
help people in affliction 帮助受苦的人.
2 [C] thing that causes suffering 造成痛苦的事物
Blindness can be a terrible affliction. 失明有时极为痛苦.
A telescope would have to be as far away as the planet Jupiter to look for life in outer space, because the dust becomes thinner the further we travel towards the outer edges of our own solar system.