詞彙精選:sickness的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
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n.
弊病
例句:
The title of the book is "the sickness of modern man".
這本書的題目叫做“當代人的弊病”。
例句:
Impatience is the sickness of the age.
不耐煩是當今時代的弊病。
疾病
例句:
In fifty-two years of working he had one week of sickness.
在52年的工作中他僅病過一週。
例句:
There appears to be another outbreak of sickness among seals in the North Sea.
看來北海的海豹又要爆發另一場疾病了。
例句:
The long sickness wasted his strength.
長期的疾病耗損了他的體力。
噁心,嘔吐
例句:
Montayne was a drug to combat morning sickness in pregnant women.
蒙太尼是一種用於減輕婦女在懷孕期清晨噁心感的藥物。
例句:
He felt a great rush of sickness.
他忽然覺得非常想吐。
二、詞義辨析:
illness,sickness,disease,complaint
這些名詞均有“疾病”之意。illness不具體指,而是泛指一切疾病,強調生病的時間或狀語,語體較sickness正式一些。sickness較口語化,可與illness換用,但還可表示“噁心”。disease指具體的疾病,且通常較嚴重,發病時間也較長。complaint現代英語中,既可指症狀,也可指疾病。
三、相關短語:
car sickness
n. 暈車
motion sickness
n. 暈動,運動病
mountain sickness
n. 高山病
radiation sickness
n. 輻射病
sleeping sickness
n.[醫]昏睡病
air sickness
航空病,航空暈,暈飛機,暈機病
altitude sickness
n.[醫](因高處氧氣稀薄而導致的)高空病
decompression sickness
減壓病,潛水員病
milk sickness
乳毒病
morning sickness
孕婦晨吐,孕婦噁心,早孕反應
serum sickness
血清病,免疫複合物型血清病
sickness benefit
n. (英國政府向因病6個月內不能工作者發的)疾病補助費
四、參考例句:
Impatience is the sickness of the age.
不耐煩是當今時代的弊病。
Sickness was rampant in the country.
疾病在這個國家猖獗。
The long sickness wasted his strength.
長期的疾病耗損了他的體力。
Whoever named it morning sickness was lying.
把這種現象稱為早孕反應的人是個騙子,因為不僅是早上想吐,中午、晚上都一樣噁心。
Some people develop altitude sickness when climbing high mountains.
有些人在爬高山時會發生高山反應。
He shammed sickness so he wouldn't have to work.
他裝病以圖不去上班。
She was struck by a sickness and became completely blind.
她患了一種病,雙目完全失明瞭。
Sickness was rampant in the rural areas of this country.
這個國家的農村地區疾病流行。
Don't hide your sickness for fear of treatment.
不要諱疾忌醫。
Tom lays his sickness to the bad food.
湯姆將他的病歸因於吃了變質的食物。