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iron-sick

/ahy-ern-sik/US // ˈaɪ ərnˌsɪk //

晕铁,晕铁症,晕铁的人,晕铁的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : noting a wooden hull, fastened with iron, in which chemical interaction between the iron and the wood has resulted in the decay of both; nail-sick.

Examples

  • And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

  • I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.

  • Cruce operates the Iron Hill Campground on the other side of the highway.

  • We are the sick ones who torment trans people every day of their lives.

  • Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?

  • The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.

  • Mr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.

  • I suppose he is sick of the sound of them, or perhaps it is because he feels obliged to be conscientious in teaching Beethoven!

  • Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.

  • After the battle of the Pyramids he fell sick, and before the Syrian expedition, applied to return to France.