- 词义辨析
illness, disease, sickness
这组词都有“病”“疾病”的意思。它们的区别是:
1.disease泛指各种疾病,尤指传染病,遗传病和诸如心脏病、癌症等严重疾病; sickness多指晕船、恶心、胃病等方面的疾病或有关饮食方面的疾病; illness多指患病的状态及持续的时间,很可能是某种disease引起的,如不及时治疗,会导致严重的后果; sickness指各种身体上和感觉上一时的不适,病期最短,而disease病期最长。
2.disease多指具体的疾病, illness和sickness则通常表示抽象的疾病或生病状态。例如:
This disease affects millions in the world every year.这种病每年都使世界上上百万人受到感染。
The doctors broke through in their fight against heart disease.医生们在与心脏病作斗争方面有了新的突破。
There has been a lot of illness in the family recently.最近以来这家人常生病。
He was internally disturbed to hear of her illness.听说她病了,他内心很不安。
Her savings have been eaten up by illness.她的积蓄因为生病全给用光了。
The worker was absent owing to sickness.那个工人因病没来上班。
illness,sickness,disease,complaint
这些名词均有“疾病”之意。
illness不具体指,而是泛指一切疾病,强调生病的时间或状态,语体较sickness正式一些。
sickness较口语化,可与illness换用,但还可表示“恶心”。
disease指具体的疾病,且通常较严重,发病时间也较长。
complaint现代英语中,既可指症状,也可指疾病。
- 速记技巧
词源词根法
illness=ill,病的,-ness,名词后缀。表示生病的名词。
谐音记忆法
也可以试着用谐音:依我你死,依我看你肯定要死了。因为病的很严重。引申为生病、病。
- 知识拓展
单词用法
illness强调疾病的种类时,用作可数名词;表示抽象含义,强调生病的状况时,用作不可数名词。
重要短语
mental illness精神病
serious illness重大疾病
terminal illness终期病患
state of illness病况
- 双语例句 更多例句
The doctor thought the girl's illness should be kept back from her because it was cancer.
医生认为不能把病情告诉这个女孩,因为她得了癌症.
《简明英汉词典》
It must be stated that this illness is one of the most complex conditions known to man.
必须声明,这种疾病是人类已知的最为复杂的疾病之一。
《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
It was noted that within a year the incidence of illness had increased quite significantly.
据观察一年之内发病率显著上升。
《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
她的政治意识源于她的成长经历,那时因为父亲生病,家境窘迫。
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典
- 相关词组
- state of illness病情;
- recover from an illness痊;复原;
- terminal illness[医]晚期病症;
- help sb recover from a lingering illness着手成春
- a sudden illness暴病;
- suffer from poverty and illness贫病交迫
- obstinate illness[医]顽症,难治愈的病;痼疾;
- respiratory illness[医]呼吸系疾病,呼吸器官疾病;
- manic-depressive illness躁狂抑郁症
- mental illness精神病;
- severity of illness scale疾病严重程度量表
- critical illness[医]病危;
- certain illness[委婉语]某种病(通常指性病);
- die of illness病死;
- conceal one's illness and aviod treatment讳疾忌医
- have an attack of one's old illness犯病
- an illness一种疾病
- depressive illness抑郁症;
- die of an illness病逝;病故;
- history of present illness现病史
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