大学英语六级常用短语 inflict on
释义:
inflict on 使承担(痛苦,负担等);给以(打击,惩罚等)
例句:
Who knows what burdens a negative ruling or stern pronouncement from the bench may inflict on the brand?
Its mission is to ferret out the myriad overcharging errors that banks continue to inflict on small businesses.
We also discussed the horrific violence that the Assad regime continues to inflict on the people of Syria.
There is no known method of destruction other than one, which we inflict on ourselves in a fit of incredible stupidity.
The rapid and total destruction the clones inflict on their hosts suggests that the phenomenon should peter out as African-honeybee hives become scarcer.
The pain they inflict on staff in terms of absenteeism, turnover, and poor morale are not worth the price of meeting tight deadlines and tight budgets.
Or is it rotted away by that inevitable demoralization which the wrong-doing of a great nation must inflict on the consciences of the least of its citizens?
The spike in prices has sent economic forecasters rushing to their calculators, to work out what damage more expensive energy might inflict on a still-tentative global economic recovery.
This would dissuade individuals from signing up to frivolous lawsuits in the knowledge that they risk nothing, however much damage they may inflict on a company, its workers and its shareholders.
When you combine that intellectual immaturity with the barrage of leftist indoctrination that many colleges inflict on them, it is no wonder that the under-30 segment of our population favors Obama.
What damage would this inflict on the economy?
What damage will these suits inflict on Yahoo!
Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte, respectively of Arizona, South Carolina and New Hampshire, have been among those tirelessly warning for months of the catastrophe sequestration will inflict on the U.S. military.
But if raising the level of happiness is to be the chief aim of government policy, as he argues it should, where then is the call to make divorce harder, given the pain that he says broken homes inflict on children?
Assuming that humans will find something better to power the world with than carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels in the next one or two hundred years, that total warming back then was greater or equal to what we are likely to inflict on Greenland.