词汇精选：sickness的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

弊病

例句：

The title of the book is "the sickness of modern man".

这本书的题目叫做“当代人的弊病”。

例句：

Impatience is the sickness of the age.

不耐烦是当今时代的弊病。

疾病

例句：

In fifty-two years of working he had one week of sickness.

在52年的工作中他仅病过一周。

例句：

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。

例句：

The long sickness wasted his strength.

长期的疾病耗损了他的体力。

恶心，呕吐

例句：

Montayne was a drug to combat morning sickness in pregnant women.

蒙太尼是一种用于减轻妇女在怀孕期清晨恶心感的药物。

例句：

He felt a great rush of sickness.

他忽然觉得非常想吐。

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：

car sickness

n. 晕车

motion sickness

n. 晕动，运动病

mountain sickness

n. 高山病

radiation sickness

n. 辐射病

sleeping sickness

n.[医]昏睡病

air sickness

航空病，航空晕，晕飞机，晕机病

altitude sickness

n.[医](因高处氧气稀薄而导致的)高空病

decompression sickness

减压病，潜水员病

milk sickness

乳毒病

morning sickness

孕妇晨吐，孕妇恶心，早孕反应

serum sickness

血清病，免疫复合物型血清病

sickness benefit

n. （英国政府向因病6个月内不能工作者发的）疾病补助费

四、参考例句：

Impatience is the sickness of the age.

不耐烦是当今时代的弊病。

Sickness was rampant in the country.

疾病在这个国家猖獗。

The long sickness wasted his strength.

长期的疾病耗损了他的体力。

Whoever named it morning sickness was lying.

把这种现象称为早孕反应的人是个骗子，因为不仅是早上想吐，中午、晚上都一样恶心。

Some people develop altitude sickness when climbing high mountains.

有些人在爬高山时会发生高山反应。

He shammed sickness so he wouldn't have to work.

他装病以图不去上班。

She was struck by a sickness and became completely blind.

她患了一种病，双目完全失明了。

Sickness was rampant in the rural areas of this country.