詞匯精選:sickness的用法和辨析
一、詳細(xì)釋義:
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(dāng)代人的弊病”。
例句:
Impatience is the sickness of the age.
不耐煩是當(dāng)今時(shí)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(guò)一周。
例句:
There appears to be another outbreak of sickness among seals in the North Sea.
看來(lái)北海的海豹又要爆發(fā)另一場(chǎng)疾病了。
例句:
The long sickness wasted his strength.
長(zhǎng)期的疾病耗損了他的體力。
惡心,嘔吐
例句:
Montayne was a drug to combat morning sickness in pregnant women.
蒙太尼是一種用于減輕婦女在懷孕期清晨惡心感的藥物。
例句:
He felt a great rush of sickness.
他忽然覺(jué)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(qiáng)調(diào)生病的時(shí)間或狀語(yǔ),語(yǔ)體較sickness正式一些。 sickness較口語(yǔ)化,可與illness換用,但還可表示“惡心”。 disease指具體的疾病,且通常較嚴(yán)重,發(fā)病時(shí)間也較長(zhǎng)。 complaint現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)中,既可指癥狀,也可指疾病。
三、相關(guān)短語(yǔ):
car sickness
n. 暈車
motion sickness
n. 暈動(dòng),運(yùn)動(dòng)病
mountain sickness
n. 高山病
radiation sickness
n. 輻射病
sleeping sickness
n.[醫(yī)]昏睡病
air sickness
航空病,航空暈,暈飛機(jī),暈機(jī)病
altitude sickness
n.[醫(yī)](因高處氧氣稀薄而導(dǎo)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,孕婦惡心,早孕反應(yīng)
serum sickness
血清病,免疫復(fù)合物型血清病
sickness benefit
n. (英國(guó)政府向因病6個(gè)月內(nèi)不能工作者發(fā)的)疾病補(bǔ)助費(fèi)
四、參考例句:
Impatience is the sickness of the age.
不耐煩是當(dāng)今時(shí)代的弊病。
Sickness was rampant in the country.
疾病在這個(gè)國(guó)家猖獗。
The long sickness wasted his strength.
長(zhǎng)期的疾病耗損了他的體力。
Whoever named it morning sickness was lying.
把這種現(xiàn)象稱為早孕反應(yīng)的人是個(gè)騙子,因?yàn)椴粌H是早上想吐,中午、晚上都一樣惡心。
Some people develop altitude sickness when climbing high mountains.
有些人在爬高山時(shí)會(huì)發(fā)生高山反應(yīng)。
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,雙目完全失明了。
Sickness was rampant in the rural areas of this country.
這個(gè)國(guó)家的農(nóng)村地區(qū)疾病流行。
Don't hide your sickness for fear of treatment.
不要諱疾忌醫(yī)。
Tom lays his sickness to the bad food.
湯姆將他的病歸因于吃了變質(zhì)的食物。
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