suffer,忍受，遭受，-er,人。引申词义患病者，患者。

1. The sufferer can experience frequent relapses.

患者可能会频繁发病。

2. This phobia can cause untold misery for the sufferer.

这种恐惧能给患者造成极度的痛苦.

3. He's been a lifelong sufferer from hay fever.

他终身患枯草热.

4. The sufferer may have to make major changes in his or her life to arrest the disease.

患者可能必须对生活习惯作出重大调整以控制病情。

5. I felt more than ordinary human sympathy for him in his misfortune. I was deeply moved as a fellow sufferer.

我对他的遭遇, 不只是普普通通的同情,还有一种深切的同病相怜的感触.