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bedridden

/bed-rid-n/US // ˈbɛdˌrɪd n //UK // (ˈbɛdˌrɪdən) //

卧病在床,卧床不起,卧病在床的,卧床不起的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : confined to bed because of illness, injury, etc.

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Examples

  • You tell the story of a mysterious illness in Sweden where hundreds of children have become bedridden.

  • It’s colorful, it’s simple, and the game mechanic is literally about taking a stroll—which is pretty poignant when you realize she designed it primarily for bedridden kids recovering from illness.

  • Six days later she was discharged, but she was bedridden for two more weeks with chest pains, a rapid pulse, and general exhaustion.

  • She was expected to stay home and help her beleaguered and sometimes bedridden mother, but she was the smartest kid in town with ambition to burn.

  • When for a couple of weeks Renee herself was bedridden — fatigued and wheezing — there were rumors that she, too, had passed away.

  • When it came to paying it back, he was helplessly and horribly bedridden.

  • There was a war and Matthew (Dan Stevens) was bedridden until he got up and walked.

  • Bedridden Child Rather spent about three years of his childhood bedridden with rheumatic fever.

  • As Rather puts it, “bedridden seriously, as in using a bed pan.”

  • The bedridden blues icon is too sick to speak up as her son and husband battle over her estate in court.

  • One of these calls led him to a house where an old woman was bedridden.

  • The old Signora Montani is bedridden; how could she get to mass?

  • But she had his bedridden mother to look after, and the children, and she broke down under it, and finally had to ask for help.

  • Elvira's bedridden old mother heard me, and she was so crazy for some one to talk with, I stepped in a minute.

  • He is sitting in a cottars house, reading the Bible to an old bedridden woman, the farm servants gathered round to get his word.

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