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illness

/il-nis/US // ˈɪl nɪs //UK // (ˈɪlnɪs) //

疾病,病症,患病,病

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : poor health; sickness: He grew up in an environment known for poverty, illness, and little opportunity for education.
    • : a specific sickness or disease, or an instance of such: Please be as accurate as possible in listing your childhood illnesses.
    • : Obsolete. wickedness.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundisease; bad health
Forms: illnesses

Examples

  • Restaurant owners have little choice but to stay open for business, and their employees risk serious illness — or death — to collect a paycheck.

  • Verily’s other efforts include a program to wipe out mosquito-borne illness and Covid-19 testing programs in several states.

  • In a group of about 3,000 patients, researchers compared the mortality of patients who received plasma with high and low levels, or titres, of antibodies at different stages of illness.

  • These people are living with respiratory illnesses and no one’s talking about it.

  • They also can transmit the virus to others, including educators, school staff and family members who are at higher risk of serious illness merely by being adults.

  • He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.

  • The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

  • Few reports of his mental illness discuss lead poisoning as a possible reason for his mental deterioration.

  • Murder, suicide, illness, old age: These deaths stalk us all, but in prison, they collect us so much more cheaply.

  • “It's insane to see what the extreme version of that type of helpless anger combined with mental illness can create,” Cook wrote.

  • After about eighteen months of office work I had a long and serious illness and was away from duty for nearly half a year.

  • There remain still the uncounted thousands who by accident or illness, age or infirmity, are unable to maintain themselves.

  • It was written in evident anxiety, and the chief subject was the illness of his daughter.

  • Mr. Ernescliffe manages him very well—used to illness on that African coast, and the doctor is very fond of him.

  • Comyn, hearing of Bruce's serious illness, advanced against him with Mowbray and Brechin, and with a largely superior force.