核心畫面
The condition of a body that is not working as it should — someone off work, in bed, not right. From there the word can narrow to one named illness, to the nausea in your stomach, or to a whole society described as .
可以想成一個「運轉不正常的身體」：人躺著、請假、整個狀態不對勁。sickness 抓住的就是這個「不對勁的狀態」本身…更多收起
可以想成一個「運轉不正常的身體」：人躺著、請假、整個狀態不對勁。sickness 抓住的就是這個「不對勁的狀態」本身，而不是哪一顆細菌。從這裡它可以縮小成某一種指名道姓的病、縮小成胃裡那股要吐的感覺，也可以整個放大——把一個社會、一套制度講得像個病人一樣。原始詞典資料3 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。
sicknessnoun/ˈsɪknɪs/
- 1
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
- I do lament the sickness of the king.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
- 2
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- 3
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.
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。