胃翻起來的那種厭惡
把「身體不對勁」整個借去講判斷。人沒有生病，但看到很殘忍或很不公平的事，胃會翻、心裡會火。英文常常這樣做：先有身體的感覺，再拿來說道德上的反應。
verb · C1
To make someone feel shocked, angry and disgusted, especially because they believe the thing is very cruel or very wrong.
令人反感
核心畫面
Take the word sick and add -en, an old ending that means make or become. What you get is a word for movement in one direction: toward being sick. A person can drift that way on their own over weeks, or something can push them that way. English then lends the same bodily feeling to the mind, because a cruel or unfair thing can turn your stomach even when your body is perfectly well.
sicken 的畫面可以想成 sick 加上 -en，而 -en 這個尾巴的意思是「弄成」或「變成」，像 widen…更多收起
sicken 的畫面可以想成 sick 加上 -en，而 -en 這個尾巴的意思是「弄成」或「變成」，像 widen（弄寬）、shorten（弄短）。所以整個字說的是一個方向：往生病那邊走。可能是自己一天天虛弱下去，也可能是壞掉的食物、不乾淨的水把人推過去。英文後來又把這個身體感覺借去講心裡：看到很殘忍、很不公平的事，胃會翻，人明明沒病，卻是同一種不舒服。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives sicken as Middle English sekenen, that is sick plus -en, and lists Danish sygne and Swedish sjukna as cognates, both meaning to fall ill. The make-or-become ending is why one word covers making someone ill and becoming ill.
Wiktionary 記載 sicken 來自中古英文 sekenen，等於 sick 加上 -en，並列出丹麥文 sygne、瑞典文 sjukna 等同源詞，意思都是「病下去」。因為 -en 同時可以是「弄成」和「變成」，所以同一個字才會既能「使人生病」，也能「自己病倒」。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1133765312:11274): From Middle English sekenen, equivalent to sick + -en
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Also in this word
verb · C2
To slowly become very ill. There is no object: the person or the animal sickens.
病倒
verb · C1
To make a person or an animal become ill.
使生病
原始詞典資料7 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。
sickenverb/ˈsɪkən/
- 1
To make ill.
- The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
- Donald Trump’s former top food safety official has accused the administration of a near “catastrophic” mismanagement of the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the US.
- 2
To become ill.
- I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
- The judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those that attended,[…] sickened upon it and died.
- 3
To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
- His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
- In announcing the review, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, said in a statement that “antisemitism — like racism — is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues.”
- 4
hobbieslifestylesportsTo lower the standing of.
- Whenever I get booed by opposition fans it only makes me more determined to sicken them.
- But instead of giving up, the Rangers team managed to grab a dramatic later winner from Kenny Miller to sicken St Mirren and lift the cup
- 5
To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
- Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
- 6
To become disgusting or tedious.
- The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
- 7
To become weak; to decay; to languish.
- All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.
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。