suffer指一般的傷害、痛苦等，其賓語為pain,loss,grief,insult,punishment,wrong等，但suffer from表示遭受戰(zhàn)爭，自然災(zāi)害帶來的苦難及患病之意。

1.感到痛苦、疼痛

He died very quickly,he didn’t suffer much.

他死得很快，沒有多少痛苦。

2.承受，遭受

(1)You must be prepared to suffer consequences.

你要準(zhǔn)備承擔(dān)后果。

(2)He suffered defeat.

他遭受了失敗。

1.患有(疾病等)

(1)She suffers from headache.

她患頭痛病。

(2)Our business has suffered from lack of investment.

我們的企業(yè)因缺乏投資而受苦。

(3)I’m suffering from a real lack of time this week.

這周我真的很缺乏時間。

(4)Mrs.White’s little boy is suffering from a bad flu bug again.

懷特太太的小男孩又患上了重感冒。