词汇精选：disease的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

病，疾病 [C]

例句：

Crowded conditions favour the spread of disease.

拥挤的条件便于疾病传播。

例句：

Disease of animal and vegetable pests propagate with extreme rapidity.

动植物病害传播极快。

【植】病害 [C]

例句：

Disease of animal and vegetable pests propagate with extreme rapidity.

动植物病害传播极快。

例句：

In many cases, plants infected with nematodes are more susceptible to other pests and disease.

在许多情况下，感染虫的植株更易感染其它虫害和病害。

（精神、道德的）不健全；（社会制度等的）弊病 [C]

例句：

He will find among them neither poverty nor disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect.

他会发现，在他们中间没有贫穷，没有病态，没有麻木不仁，没有痛苦的缺陷。

例句：

Then he slides into the stupor of the disease that has blanked his memory.

随后他就不知不觉地陷入了那种记忆不清神志恍惚的病态中。

【废】不安；烦恼 [C]

v.

使有病；使不正常；使不健全 [T]

二、词义辨析：

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语，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。

三、相关短语：

heart disease

n. 心脏病

infectious disease

n.传染病

social disease

n.(=venereal disease)性病,花柳病

autoimmune disease

自家免疫性疾病，自身免疫病，自体免疫性疾病

black disease

黑色病，黑疫

blood disease

血液病，血状病

caisson disease

沉箱病，潜水员病

cardiovascular disease

心血管病

cat scratch disease

猫抓病

celiac disease

乳糜泻，脂泻病

chronic wasting disease

慢性消耗性疾病

communicable disease

传染病，传染性疾病

四、参考例句：

The disease is hereditary.

这种病有遗传性。

Desperate disease requires desperate remedies.

重症要用猛药医。

Disease has decimated the population.

疾病使大部分人死亡。

Desperate disease require desperate remedies.

险症要用猛药医。

He is eaten up with disease .

他疾病缠身。

Disease is the child of intemperance.

疾病是无节制的产物。

A typical disaster story: disease, corruption, poverty.

一个典型的灾难性故事，疾病、腐败、贫穷。

This disease had deformed his spine.