to be afflicted with meaning in Chinese
患上/染上
Examples
- He may know what it is to come down in the world, and to be afflicted with a great personal calamity .
他也许知道世路上的蹭蹬，身世的潦倒是什么滋味。 - How mankind ever came to be afflicted with wiglomeration, or for whose sins these young people ever fell into a pit of it, i don't know; so it is .
我不知道人们怎么就会饱受刀笔之苦，而这些年轻人又怎么就会由于刀笔的罪孽而掉到火坑里去；不过事实就是这样。