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ailing

/ey-ling/US // ˈeɪ lɪŋ //UK // (ˈeɪlɪŋ) //

患病的,患病,生病的,生病

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sickly; unwell.
    • : unsound or troubled: a financially ailing corporation.

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Examples

  • Just the opportunity to be the flawed adult child of a flawed and ailing father, the person there to hold his hand when he’s scared.

  • Stock prices have soared for months in defiance of an ailing, pandemic-wrecked economy.

  • They trail the Seahawks, 16-7, at halftime and Murray clearly is bothered by an ailing right shoulder.

  • They were presumably brought down and sacrificed in ATM to help garner favor for a possibly ailing community.

  • And the rising star still standing just might be in the best position to offer some elixir to our deeply ailing political system.

  • He was, however, also caught up in the tumult of his ailing marriage to Ava Gardner.

  • He was wonderful, with Laura Linney, as a burdened brother and sister looking after an ailing parent in The Savages (2007).

  • Boosting spending and undoing a chunk of the sequester is likely to have a bigger impact on the still-ailing job market.

  • There was nothing wonderful about that, for Dick had heard quite recently that he was an ailing man, and not likely to live long.

  • Strange to say it did not take her by surprise; she told me that the girl had been ailing for several years.

  • He had been ailing for several weeks; as his son had remarked, his handwriting had been the first symptom of the breakdown.

  • He came home to find his father ailing, and on 2nd December 1469, Piero de' Medici died.

  • Philosophers and men of letters, when they are ailing, meet with no such pleasant attentions nowadays!