单词详解

n.

A. [U] 患病 (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)

    The boy didn’t have P.E. lesson under the pretence of sickness.

那个男孩借口生病没有上体育课。

B. [C] 疾病 (defectiveness or unsoundness)

Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a common childhood sickness now.

如今手足口病成为一种常见的儿童期疾病。

Depression is beginning to be widely recognised as a sickness.

抑郁症开始被广泛认为是一种病。

C. [U] 恶心，呕吐 (the state that precedes vomiting)

Sickness often results from eating too much. 呕吐常因饮食过量所致。

相关词组

 mountain sickness  高山病

 Is mountain sickness very serious? 高山病很严重吗？

相关单词

复数：sicknesses