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ail

/eyl/US // eɪl //UK // (eɪl) //

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to be unwell; feel pain; be ill: He's been ailing for some time.

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Examples

  • Accordingly, much the same way that the shareholders may not easily get to know all that is ailing a publicly traded company, we also, by default, know very little about exactly what each atom or molecule on the planet is doing.

  • A former colleague described how Redfield, a devout Catholic, prayed with the ailing Elijah Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Baltimore, during a visit to the Capitol.

  • To a crowd that included Mary Hamblet and her ailing mother, Grammie, Mabelle served baked shad and jellied salad, apple crisp, and the homemade graham bread — molasses-sweet and impossibly light — that was famous among her friends.

  • Because he was placed on the list, Tanvir also claims that he was unable to fly to see his ailing mother in Pakistan and that he had to quit a job as a long-haul trucker because he could no longer fly home to New York after a one-way delivery.

  • The Postal Service responded to OSHA that it traces contacts of all employees who test positive and encourages ailing employees to stay home.

  • To love India's culture does not mean you must accept the widespread problems that still ail the country: quite the contrary.

  • In thought and sound these verses express ail the frightful horror of this desolation.

  • Ask them what they ail, or who brought them in this stay, They answer not at all, but "alack!"

  • Sighing and sobbing, they weep and they wail; I marvel in my mind what the devil they ail.

  • But Rhodes was expecting too much, considering ail the circumstances.

  • And if you can now be present on ail such occasions, what will you do when you are dead?