suffer
[UK]/'sʌf.ər/ [US]/-ɚ/
verb
FEEL PAIN 感觉痛
E [I]
* to experience physical or mental pain
受苦；受折磨

1. I think he suffered quite a lot when his wife left him.
我想他妻子离开他时，他一定很痛苦。

2. She suffers terribly in the winter when it's cold and her joints get stiff.
冬天天气寒冷，她的关节会变得僵硬，这让她非常难受。

3. She's been suffering from (= been ill with) cancer for two years.
她患癌症已经两年了。

4. Johnny suffers from (= is often ill with) asthma.
约翰尼患有哮喘。

5. If you're not happy with it, you should complain. Don't just suffer in silence (= without saying anything).
如果你不喜欢，应该说出来。别闷在心里。

[UK]/'sʌf.ər/ [US]/-ɚ/
verb
EXPERIENCE 经历
I [I or T]
* to experience or show the effects of something bad
经历，经受，遭受（坏事）

1. The Democrats suffered a crushing defeat in the last election.
民主党在上次选举中惨败。

2. Twenty-five policemen suffered minor injuries during the protest.
抗议事件中有25名员警受到轻伤。

3. The city suffered another blow last month with the closure of the local car factory.
当地汽车厂上个月倒闭，这是该市受到的又一打击。

4. If you will insist on eating three helpings of dessert, I'm afraid you'll have to suffer the consequences !
如果你坚持要吃三份甜点，恐怕你会自作自受！

5. [+ obj + -ing verb] I had to suffer her father moaning for half an hour on the phone last night!
昨晚我不得不忍受她父亲在电话里唠叨抱怨了半个小时！

6. When you're working such long hours, it's inevitable that your marriage will start to suffer.
你老是这么加班，婚姻难免会受影响。

7. Like a lot of his films, it suffers from being a bit too long.
和他的其他很多电影一样，这部电影也是有点太长了。

[UK]/'sʌf.ər/ [US]/-ɚ/
verb
not suffer fools gladly
* to have very little patience with people who you think are silly or have stupid ideas
不愿迁就笨人，不能容忍愚蠢者

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☞ suffer
suf·fer / 5sQfE(r) / verb1. [V] ~ (from sth) | ~ (for sth) to be badly affected by a disease, pain, sadness, a lack of sth, etc.
   (因疾病、痛苦、悲伤等)受苦,受难,受折磨:
   I hate to see animals suffering.
   我不忍心看动物受苦。
   He suffers from asthma.
   他患有哮喘。
   road accident victims suffering from shock
   在交通事故中受到惊吓的受害者
   Many companies are suffering from a shortage of skilled staff.
   许多公司苦于缺乏熟练员工。
   He made a rash decision and now he is suffering for it.
   他当初草率决定,现在吃苦头了。
2. [VN] to experience sth unpleasant, such as injury, defeat or loss
   遭受；蒙受:
   He suffered a massive heart attack.
   他的心脏病发作很严重。
   The party suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election.
   该党在大选中惨败。
   The company suffered huge losses in the last financial year.
   公司在上一财政年度出现巨额亏损。
3. [V] to become worse
   变差；变糟:
   His school work is suffering because of family problems.
   由于家庭问题,他的学业日渐退步。
 IDIOMS 
▪ not suffer fools 'gladly
   to have very little patience with people that you think are stupid
   不愿迁就笨人；不能容忍愚蠢者

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suffer verb

• ADVERB a lot, badly, enormously, greatly, grievously, horribly, immensely, mightily, severely, terribly, tremendously This area ~ed very badly in the storms. | needlessly Thousands of children in the world today ~ needlessly. | disproportionately Poor families ~ disproportionately from asthma. | accordingly | unnecessarily | economically, financially | emotionally, mentally, physically | alone I'm sorry that you have to ~ alone like this.

• VERB + SUFFER be likely to, tend to Premature babies are more likely to ~ from breathing difficulties in childhood. | continue to | deserve to No child deserves to ~ for a parent's mistakes.

• PREPOSITION for I played tennis yesterday and I know I shall ~ for it today. | from She ~s from asthma. | under people ~ing under repressive regimes | with He ~s terribly with migraines.

• PHRASES ~ in silence They were just expected to ~ in silence.

Suffer is used with these nouns as the subject: country, credibility, economy, morale, patient, quality, reputation, schooling, victim
Suffer is used with these nouns as the object: abuse, accident, agony, ailment, anguish, arthritis, assault, attack, beating, bereavement, blow, bombardment, bout, breakdown, bruise, burn, casualty, complication, concussion, consequence, convulsion, cost, cramp, crisis, cruelty, cut, damage, death, decline, decrease, defeat, delay, delusion, depression, deprivation, dip, disability, disadvantage, disappointment, disaster, discomfort, discrimination, disruption, distress, disturbance, downturn, drop, effect, electric shock, embarrassment, erosion, execution, exposure, failure, fall, famine, fate, feeling, fit, fool, fracture, graze, guilt, haemorrhage, hallucination, handicap, harassment, hardship, harm, heart attack, hit, horror, humiliation, ill-treatment, illness, imprisonment, inconvenience, infection, injury, injustice, insult, intimidation, isolation, lapse, loneliness, loss, malnutrition, miscarriage, misery, misfortune, mishap, mutation, neglect, neurosis, nightmare, oppression, ordeal, pain, pang, penalty, persecution, plague, prejudice, problem, puncture, punishment, reaction, rebuff, recession, recurrence, reduction, relapse, remorse, repercussion, repression, reprisal, retaliation, reversal, reverse, setback, shock, shortage, sickness, side effect, spasm, stigma, strain, stress, stroke, swing, symptom, taunt, thrashing, torment, torture, tragedy, trauma, treatment, twinge, violence, withdrawal, wound, wrath, wrong

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suffer
 see not suffer fools gladly.

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suffer verb
⇨ have 3

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suffer

verb
1 I loved him too much to want to see him suffer
HURT , ache, be in pain, feel pain, be racked with pain, endure agony, agonize, be distressed, be in distress, experience hardship, be upset, be miserable, be wretched, be handicapped.

2 he suffered from asthma for many years
BE AFFLICTED BY , be affected by, be troubled with, have, have trouble with.

3 England suffered a humiliating defeat
UNDERGO , experience, be subjected to, receive, encounter, meet with, endure, face, live through, go through, sustain, bear.

4 the school's reputation has suffered
BE IMPAIRED , be damaged, deteriorate, fall off, decline, get worse.

5 he was obliged to suffer intimate proximity with the man he detested
TOLERATE , put up with, bear, brook, stand, abide, endure, support, accept, weather; informal stick, stomach; Brit. informal wear, hack.

6 my conscience would not suffer me to accept any more
ALLOW , permit, let, give leave to, give assent to, sanction, give one's blessing to; informal give the green light to, give the go ahead to, give the thumbs up to, give someone/something the nod, OK.

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suffer

You can say that someone suffers pain or an unpleasant experience.

    He suffered a lot of discomfort.

    Young suffered imprisonment and intimidation.

`put up with'

You do not use suffer to say that someone tolerates an unpleasant person. You say that they put up with the person.

    The local people have to put up with gaping tourists.

`stand' and `bear'

If you do not like someone at all, you do not say that you `can't suffer' them. You say that you can't stand them or can't bear them.

    She said she couldn't stand him.

    I can't bear kids.

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suffer 受苦，受难，忍受，遭受
suf-, 在下；-fer, 承担，承载，词源同bring, infer。引申诸相关比喻义。

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