sicken
英['s?k(?)n]
美['s?k?n]
- vt. 使患病；使惡心；使嫌惡
- vi. 生病；變厭膩
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?sickens;過去式:?sickened;過去分詞:?sickened;現在分詞:?sickening;
中文詞源
sicken 使震驚，使憤怒
sick,生病的，欲嘔的，-en,使。引申比喻義使震驚，使憤怒。
英文詞源
- sicken (v.)
- c. 1200, "to become ill," from sick (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive sense of "to make sick" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Sickened; sickening. The earlier verb was simply sick (Old English seocan) "to be ill, fall ill."
雙語例句
- 1. The animal began to sicken and soon died.
- 這只動物患了病很快就死了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Only Mother Shipton - once the strongest of the party - seemed to sicken and fade.
- 只有席蒲頓媽媽 — 以前是他們中最堅強的 — 似乎虛弱、憔悴.
來自辭典例句
- 3. Fitzpiers had hardly been gone an hour when Grace began to sicken.
- 菲茨比爾斯走后幾乎不到一個小時,格雷絲就開始發病了.
來自辭典例句
- 4. I began to sicken of the endless violence shown on television.
- 我逐漸對電視上無盡無休的暴力鏡頭感到厭惡.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Their business methods sicken me.
- 我很討厭他們做生意的手法.
來自辭典例句