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Airsickness is the name of that plane-motion feeling — the noun. If is “I feel that way,” airsickness is “the thing that happens to you.” You take tablets for airsickness; a rough flight can cause airsickness; a notice might warn of airsickness. It is a little more formal than just saying you feel sick, because it names the condition, but families still use it in everyday talk. Same idea as seasickness or . Though actually, on a long flight you can feel wretched for many reasons — pressure in the ears, bad food, fear — and people still dump them all under this word. Strictly, it is the motion.
暈機、暈機的不適
組成air + sickness, or airsick + -ness (turns the adjective into the name of the condition).
同家族的字
- airsickthe adjective; this is the noun
- seasicknessthe same kind of feeling, but from a boat
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
airsicknessnoun
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A feeling of nausea, dizziness etc. caused by the motion of an aircraft; a form of motion sickness.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。