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。
- 词义辨析
- 双语例句
1、
By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
与疾病相比,健康才显得可爱.
——《简明英汉词典》
2、
To help comrades who have made mistakes, we should adopt the approach of " curing the sickness to save the patient ".
要以“治病救人 ” 的态度帮助犯错误的同志.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
3、
The boy refuses to go to school on [ under ] the pretext of illness [ an ailment, sickness ].
这孩子装病不去 上学.
——《现代汉英综合大词典》
4、
After a while, the sickness gradually passed and she struggled to the mirror.
过了一会儿，她渐渐不那么恶心了，挣扎着到了镜子前。
柯林斯例句
5、
Sickness was rampant in the rural areas of this country.
这个国家的农村地区疾病流行.
——《简明英汉词典》
6、
They were disabled by age or sickness.
他们因年老或疾病而失去了工作的能力.
——《简明英汉词典》
7、
Sickness excused him from coming.
患病是他不来的理由.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
8、
Don't hide your sickness for fear of treatment.
绝不要讳疾忌医.
《简明英汉词典》
9、
He put up a good fight against his sickness.
他同疾病作顽强的斗争.
《简明英汉词典》
10、
Sickness has fastened on him.
他病魔缠身.
《简明英汉词典》
11、
Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.
生病是请假的一个正当的理由.
《简明英汉词典》
12、
There appears to be another outbreak of sickness among seals in the North Sea.
看来北海的海豹又要爆发另一场疾病了。
柯林斯例句
13、
Sickness often prostrates people.
疾病常使人们衰弱.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
14、
He didn't attend that meeting under the pretext of sickness.
他以生病为借口,没参加那个会议.
《简明英汉词典》
15、
He is seized with a painful sickness.
他得了一种痛苦的疾病.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
16、
She's been off work because of sickness.
她因病没有上班。
牛津词典
17、
The sickness passed off after a while.
过了一会儿，就不觉得恶心了。
牛津词典
18、
Liam had suffered violent sickness and diarrhoea.
利亚姆上吐下泻。
朗文当代高级英语词典 第6版
19、
He received the news of his father's sickness with great anxiety.
他得知父亲生病的消息时焦急万分.
《简明英汉词典》
20、
He felt a great rush of sickness...
他忽然觉得非常想吐。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
21、
He said the idea of 'success' was part of the sickness of Western cultures.
他说,“成功”观念是西方文化弊端之一。
朗文当代高级英语词典 第6版
22、
altitude/travel/radiation, etc. sickness
高原病、旅行眩晕、辐射病等
牛津词典
23、
war-related sicknesses
与战争有关的疾病
朗文当代高级英语词典 第6版
24、
insurance against sickness and unemployment
疾病和失业保险
牛津词典
25、
In fifty-two years of working he had one week of sickness...
在52 年的工作中他仅病过一周。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
26、
working days lost due to sickness
因病损失的工作日
朗文当代高级英语词典 第6版
27、
an insurance policy against long-term sickness and injury
保长期患病和受伤的保险单
朗文当代高级英语词典 第6版
28、
...radiation sickness.
辐射病
柯林斯高阶英语词典
29、
Sickness often results from eating too much.
呕吐常因饮食过量所致.
《简明英汉词典》
30、
symptoms include sickness and diarrhoea
症状包括呕吐和腹泻
牛津词典
- 相关短语
- altitude sicknessn.（因高处氧气稀薄而导致的）高空病;
- motion sicknessn.运动病;晕动;
- morning sicknessn.孕妇怀孕初期的反应，孕妇晨吐;孕吐;
- radiation sicknessn.辐射病;
- sleeping sicknessn.昏睡病;
- sickness benefitn.（英国政府向因病6个月内不能工作者发的）救济金;
- travel sickness晕车[船，机];
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