1be cursed with/by somethingMIto be affected by something bad 受某事物的折磨
The museum has been cursed by financial problems since it opened.
这家博物馆自开馆以来就一直受到资金问题的困扰。
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be cursed with/by something• I learned he had the same goofy sense of humor I was cursed with.• She loses her wings and dies, leaving him to be cursed by Madge.• Instead, he might be cursed with one who would rob him blind and charge him three-times the wages for the privilege.• These poorchaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeralvulgarity of their usualtasks.• Lydia Glasher writes that the wearer of these diamonds will be cursed by the wrong she did.• He is cursed with this evaluative frame of mind.• He is cursed with this understanding.
cursed• She wouldn't speak, and both of us felt cursed.• Katherine Lundy was determined that her children would grow up unaffected and untainted by the cursed country.• Now he had no way to track the cursedcreature ... How very quickly Carnelian had acted!• The curseditem can not be removed, either, once put on.• Collins' novel is about a cursedjewelstolen from an idol's eye.• This is commonly reported by the cursedsurvivors of Auschwitz.• There was not a drink to be had after midnight in this cursedtown.