喜樂美語
  1. 1
    nB1

    /ˈɪlnəs/

    A disease, or the state of being ill in your body or mind.

    疾病

    複數 illnesses

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Picture someone who has dropped out of ordinary life for a while: the bed is unmade at two in the afternoon, work is on hold, someone else is doing the shopping. Illness can be thought of as that whole state of not-being-well — the period a person is in, rather than the or the damage itself. That is why English says a long illness, a serious illness, off work with an illness: it is measured in time and in how much of your life it takes over.

可以想成一個人暫時從正常生活裡「退出來」的樣子：下午兩點床還沒整理，工作先停著，買菜的事交給別人。illness 的…更多收起可以想成一個人暫時從正常生活裡「退出來」的樣子：下午兩點床還沒整理，工作先停著，買菜的事交給別人。illness 的畫面比較像這整段「不舒服、不能照常過日子」的狀態，而不是那隻病菌或身體壞掉的那個點。所以英文才會講 a long illness（一場久病）、a serious illness（重病）、off work with an illness（因病請假）——它是用時間長短、用佔掉多少生活來衡量的。跟它常放一起的 disease 比較像是「有名字的那個病」，illness 比較像是「人生病的那段狀態」，中文兩個都翻成「疾病」，但語感上有這層差別。

原始詞典資料2 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。

illnessnoun/ˈɪl.nəs/

  • 1

    An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health.

    • Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
    • suffer form a severe illness
  • 2

    A state of bad health or disease.

    • Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
    • Illness is a wholistic reality, just as health is wholistic, and healing is the process of moving from illness to health.

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。