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Indisposition is a polite, rather old-fashioned word for being a little — not terribly ill, just not well enough to come, to work, or to go out. You will meet it in formal notes and older books: “owing to a slight indisposition.” In everyday talk, people just say they are sick, or not feeling well. Though actually, speakers sometimes choose this word on purpose because it is vague: it tells you someone cannot come, without telling you what is wrong. A doctor today would almost never write it; it lives in apologies, old novels, and careful letters.
身體不適（文言：微恙）
組成From Middle English indisposicioun, from Middle French indisposicion. Built as in- (not) + disposition (how your body or mind is set).
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- dispositionthe noun this turns over: how a body or mind is set; also a person's usual nature
- indisposedthe adjective: slightly ill (or, in another use, unwilling)
原始詞典資料4 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。
indispositionnoun/ɪnˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/
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A mild illness, the state of being indisposed.
- I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.
- She began not to understand a word they said, and was obliged to plead indisposition and excuse herself.
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datedA mild illness, the state of being indisposed.
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A state of not being disposed to do something; disinclination; unwillingness.
- He argued that the progress of wealth could be impeded not only by an indisposition to produce, but also by an indisposition to consume […]
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A bad mood or disposition.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
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。