a.
- 生病的；身體不舒服的；體衰的[R]She helps take care of her ailing aunt.
她幫助照料體弱的姑媽。
- ail的動詞現在分詞、動名詞
參見
ail
vt.
- （不用被動態）使痛苦，使苦惱；使不適Do you know what ails that crying child?
你知道那哭著的孩子什麼地方不舒服嗎？
vi.
- 感到不適，生病She has been ailing for a long time.
她已病了好久了。
- 處境艱難That country's ailing economy has become a big problem.
那個國家不景氣的經濟狀況已成為一個大問題。
辨析
同義:
a.有病的，痛苦的，不適的
sick sickly sickened ill unhealthy unsound unwell diseased morbid pathological poisoned done for poorly out of sorts aching sore pained smarting hurt wounded suffering agonizing miserable down complaining delicate faint languishing fading away wasting away weak weakly feeble in firm crippled lame paralytic paralyzed palsied asthmatic tubercular同義參見:
indisposed sick1 down1
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