1[transitiveT]DISGUSTING to make you feel shocked and angry, especially because you strongly disapprove of something 使震怒,使憤慨,使厭惡SYN disgust
The thought of such cruelty sickened her.
想到如此殘忍的行爲,她就很憤慨。
All decent people should be sickened by such a pointless waste of life.
凡正派的人都會痛恨這樣無謂地浪費生命。
2[intransitiveI] old-fashionedILL to gradually become very ill 慢慢病倒
The older people just sickened and died as food supplies ran low.
食物供應不足,年紀較大的人就慢慢病倒死去了。
3be sickening for somethingphrasal verbphr vBritish EnglishBrEILLto be starting to have an illness 開始生…病,有生…病的症狀
Perhaps you’re sickening for something.
也許你是生什麽病了。
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be sickening for • Perhaps he was sickening for a cold.
4sicken of somethingphrasal verbphr vFED UPto lose your desire for something or your interest in it 對…感到厭煩,對…失去興趣
He finally sickened of the endless round of parties and idle conversation.
他終於厭倦了那些沒完沒了的聚會和無聊的談話。
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sicken• Many of our people sickened and died, and we buried them in this strange land.• "Some of the recentattacks on horses in this area are enough to sicken anyone, " a police spokesman said.• They tell me their communities are sickened by this latest outrage.• The smell of the bloodsickened her and she ran out of the room.• It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it.• The stench of blood and wastesickened him.• A gas attack in the main train stationsickened hundreds of people.• I had heard them complaining of how nauseated they felt, how the very thought of food sickened them.