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sick

Word family 
sick1 /sɪk/ ●●● S1 W3 adjectiveadj   → sic
1  ill 生病的ILL especially American EnglishAmE suffering from a disease or illness 生病的，患病的
 His mother’s very sick.
他母亲病得很重。
 Maria can’t come in today because she’s sick.
玛丽亚因为生病今天不能来了。
 a sick child
生病的孩子
 a sick animal
患病的动物
sick with
 I have been sick with flu.
我感冒了。
get sick (=become ill) American EnglishAmE 生病，患病
 At the last minute, I got sick and couldn’t go.
我在最后一刻病倒，不能去了。
be off sick British EnglishBrE, be out sick American EnglishAmE (=be away from work or school because you are ill) 因病缺勤 [缺课]
 Two of his employees were out sick.
他的两名员工因病没来上班。
 I was off sick for four days with the flu.
我因患流感休了四天病假。
phone/ring/call in sick (=phone to say you are not coming to work because you are ill) 打电话请病假
 He was upset because it was the first day of the sale and Astrid had called in sick.
他很生气，因为那是大减价的第一天，阿斯特丽德却打电话来请了病假。
 What will happen to the business if you fall sick (=become ill) or die?
假如你生病或是去世了，公司怎么办？
 He took sick (=became ill) and died a week later.
他病倒后一周就去世了。
 Pete’s at home in bed, as sick as a dog (=very sick).
皮特卧床在家，病得很重。
► see thesaurus at ill
2  be sick SICK/VOMITif you are sick, the food in your stomach comes up through your mouth 呕吐 SYN vomit, throw up
 I think I’m going to be sick.
我觉得自己快要吐了。
 He dashed to the bathroom and was sick again.
他冲进卫生间，又吐了。
 The cat’s been sick on the carpet.
那只猫吐在地毯上了。
 You’ll be sick if you eat any more of that chocolate!
如果你再吃一口那巧克力，你会吐的！
 I was violently sick (=suddenly and severely sick) the last time I ate prawns.
我上次吃了大虾后吐得很厉害。
Examples from the Corpus
be sick• I think I'm going to be sick.• For once, she got to be sick.• I am sick and weary of all this business.• But Aeschylus too was sick at heart.• And I was sick just two days ago.• Teacher Miss - Student Miss Poll's doll was sick, sick, sick.• He was sick to his stomach.• If a cat is sick we should always take veterinary advice.• It was hard to be sick when I was sick, if you know what I mean.
3  feel sick  (also be/feel sick to your stomach American EnglishAmE)SICK/VOMIT to feel as if you are going to vomit 反胃，恶心，作呕
 As soon as the ship started moving I began to feel sick.
轮船一开动，我就感到恶心了。
feel sick with
 Mary felt sick with fear.
玛丽害怕得直恶心。
 She began to shiver, feeling sick to her stomach.
她开始颤抖起来，感到直反胃。
 Virginia had a sick feeling in her stomach.
弗吉尼娅有些反胃。
→ carsick, seasick, → travel-sick at travel sickness
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feel sick• I looked at the picture and felt sick.• We crossed the street, I felt sick.• When he heard the girls were dead he felt sick.• We'd only been in the car two minutes when David said he felt sick.• He is talking directly to us and we do feel sick.• He felt good and then felt sick about the way he had pissed him off on the phone like that.• I felt sick after I ate all that candy.• I feel sick, and we still have a few minutes left.• Sometimes after I watch a match, I feel sick because of it.• He developed a severe headache and felt very sick by day three.• It smears my file, and I feel sick every time I look at it.• If you feel sick, there's the bowl, okay?• I had no urge to smoke when I was pregnant. It made me feel sick to my stomach.• When I was pregnant, the smell of coffee made me feel sick to my stomach.
4  make me/you sick spoken
a) ANGRYto make you feel very angry 令我/你非常气愤
 People like you make me sick!
像你这样的人真叫我生气！
b) JEALOUSANGRYto make you feel jealous – used humorously 令我/你眼红〔幽默用法〕
 You make me sick with your ‘expenses paid’ holidays!
你有公费度假，真叫我眼红啊！
Examples from the Corpus
make me/you sick• He's so cute it makes me sick.• Another helping will make you sick.• Finally, the very thought of one more sweet and sticky mouthful would make him sick.• He said riding in the ambulance made him sick.• I was too young to exercise my intellectual force to demolish prejudices that made me sick.• It was the suspense that was making me sick.• The shocking stills above are from the 1992 film and show the Ally McBeal star making herself sick after a binge.• But it made me sick and dizzy, so I didn't take it.• It's enough to make you sick, the way they treat old people.• It made you sick to your stomach.
5  make somebody/yourself sick British EnglishBrE
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make somebody/yourself sick• Finally, the very thought of one more sweet and sticky mouthful would make him sick.• I was too young to exercise my intellectual force to demolish prejudices that made me sick.• Shortly afterwards she made herself sick.• Still, for a long time, Helen would not, which they both thought would make her sick.• It makes you so sick that you lose the baby.• It made him sick to go to Horatia's bed, but he hadn't shirked the task.• To be honest, it made me sick to my stomach.• It makes you sick, you know.
6  be sick (and tired) of (doing) something  (also be sick to death of (doing) something)FED UP spoken to be angry or bored with something that has been happening for a long time 对某事感到厌烦[厌倦]
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be sick (and tired) of (doing) something• I was sick of concealments - those retentions of his.• I was sick of following baseball through the abbreviated box scores of the international Herald Tribune.• No one, knowing the Patriarch, could doubt that, after a day of his voice, Zacco was sick of him.• Gad, I was sick and tired of life.• We are sick and tired of the proliferation of guns.• I think the archivist who helped me is sick of the sight of me by now.• People were sick of the war.• When we first started we were sick of the way many groups would adopt a cool persona for interviews.
7  be worried sick/be sick with worry WORRIEDto be extremely worried 极为担心
8  strange/cruel 反常的/残酷的
9  sick at heart literaryUPSET very unhappy, upset, or disappointed about something 很不愉快的；很难过的；很失望的
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sick at heart• All the cruelty and injustice made her sick at heart.• But Aeschylus too was sick at heart.• He struggles against it, he rejects it, he grows sick at heart.• I was alone, dry of mouth, sick at heart.• She turned away, feeling sick at heart, even though she knew she should be glad.• They were sick at heart, weak in the bones.
10. sick as a parrot British EnglishBrE spokenDISAPPOINTED extremely disappointed – used humorously 极为失望的〔幽默用法〕
11. [not before noun] British EnglishBrE spoken used by young people to say that something is very impressive and they admire it a lot 酷，棒〔年轻人用语，表示某物令人赞叹〕
n COLLOCATIONS
verbs
get sick (=become ill)
The boy got sick, and he just got worse and worse.
fall/take sick formal (=become ill, especially with something serious or that will last a long time)
He fell sick and died within a matter of weeks.
be off sick British EnglishBrE, be out sick American EnglishAmE (=be away from work or school because you are ill)
Half my staff were off sick.
call/phone/ring in sick (=phone to say you are not coming in to work because you are ill)
I could have called in sick, but I knew you needed this report.
sick + NOUN
sick leave (=time that you can stay away from work because you are ill)
He returned to duty after two months’ sick leave.
sick pay (=money paid to an employee who is too ill to work)
Only full-time employees got sick pay.
somebody's sick bed (=the bed where a sick person is lying)
He left his sick bed to play in the game.
the sick room (=the room where a sick person is)
She had spent the last hour in her mother’s sick room.
the sick bay (=a room where there are beds for people who are sick, for example on a ship or in a school)
I was confined to the ship's sick bay until we arrived back in Liverpool.
Examples from the Corpus
sick• Nall should have kept bringing the time down herself, but she got sick.• Where's Mary today? I hope she's not sick again.• But they also can't develop if people are sick and illiterate.• I get travel sick, anyway.• So the family rule about illness, as Carrie Semple experienced it, was that the best child was a sick child.• I'm sorry I didn't reply to your e-mail. I was in bed sick for a couple of days.• I was very sick for twenty-four hours, and Michael was coping with everything.• Is this somebody's idea of a sick joke?• One of the suspect's neighbors described him as "a very sick man."• Sheila spent months looking after her sick mother.• Miguel was sick of being part of a machine that was eating up the city and spitting out the bones.• Gary phoned to say that he's off sick today.• We were dirty, hungry, cold and sick with exhaustion.• Grant Hill played despite being sick with the flu for the past ten days.
get sick• Actually, no matter what happens to the business cycle, people will continue to eat and to get sick.• I never used to, that was one thing I was really lucky, I never got sick.• I think about getting sick all of the time.• Well, the boy got sick, and he just got worse and worse.• Humans don't necessarily get sick from eating carrion.• If you get sick, however, people will love you again.• I was getting sick of hearing it.• I mean I would think that she would get sick of it.
sick mind• Disjointed thoughts kept floating to the surface of his sick mind from somewhere deep within its murky depths.• It defies belief and makes you question exactly who the law is protecting here: the sick minds or their young victims?
sick2 noun  
1  the sick [plural]ILL people who are ill 病人
Examples from the Corpus
the sick• At that time there were no state benefits for the old and the sick.• She devoted herself to the care of the sick and poor.• terrible wartime photographs of the sick and the dying
2  [uncountableU] British EnglishBrE informalSICK/VOMIT vomit 呕吐物
Examples from the Corpus
sick• On average, companies lose twelve days per employee per year as a result of sickness.• They provided hospitality to travellers, and people with property endowed foundations for the care of the old and the sick.• Under such circumstances it is frequently the sick who are the first to leave.
sick3 verb  
1 sick something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE informal SICK/VOMITto bring up food from your stomach – used especially of children 〔尤指孩子〕呕吐 SYN American English vomit up
 Ruth had frequently sicked up her bottle milk.
露丝用奶瓶喝奶时经常吐奶。
From Longman Business Dictionary
sicksick /sɪk/ adjectiveadj
1a sick company, economy etc is one that has financial or other difficulties such as CORRUPTION (=dishonest, illegal, or immoral behaviour)
The President lost popularity when his reforms failed to revive a sick economy.
a terminally sick company
2off sick not at work because you have an illness or a disease
He has been off sick for the last six weeks.
Origin sick1
Old English seoc
sick1 adjectiveadj →n COLLOCATIONS1sick2 nounsick3 verb
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