| 单词 | sick |
| 释义 | sick (sɪk ) Word forms: sicker , sickest 1. adjective A2 If you are sick, you are ill. Sick usually means physically ill, but it can sometimes be used to mean mentally ill. He's very sick. He needs medication. She found herself with two small children, a sick husband, and no money. He was not evil, but he was sick. Synonyms: unwell, ill, poorly [informal], diseased The sick are people who are sick. There were no doctors to treat the sick. 2. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] A2 If you are sick, the food that you have eaten comes up from your stomach and out of your mouth. If you feel sick, you feel as if you are going to be sick. She got up and was sick in the handbasin. The very thought of food made him feel sick. Orange juice makes him sick so don't give it to him. Synonyms: nauseous, ill, queasy, nauseated 3. uncountable noun A2 Sick is vomit. [British, informal] Synonyms: vomit, puke [slang] 4. adjective B2 If you say that you are sick of something or sick and tired of it, you are emphasizing that you are very annoyed by it and want it to stop. [informal, emphasis] I am sick and tired of hearing all these people moaning. [+ of] Most people here are sick of violence. Synonyms: tired, bored, fed up, weary 5. adjective If you describe something such as a joke or story as sick, you mean that it deals with death or suffering in an unpleasantly humorous way. [disapproval] ...a sick joke about a cat. That's really sick. Synonyms: morbid, cruel, sadistic, black 6. adjective You can describe something as sick when you think it is excellent. [British, informal] Those new trainers are sick. 7. make sb sick phrase B2 If you say that something or someone makes you sick, you mean that they make you feel angry or disgusted. [informal] It makes me sick that people commit offences and never get punished. The British press makes me sick. 8. off sick phrase If you are off sick, you are not at work because you are ill. When we are off sick, we only receive half pay. 9. worried sick phrase If you say that you are worried sick, you are emphasizing that you are extremely worried. [informal, emphasis] He was worried sick about what our mothers would say. [+ about] Idioms: sick as a dog very ill or very upset In the children's story The Chocolate Wedding, the main character, Lulu, eats 16 chocolate eggs and is as sick as a dog. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers sick as a parrot [British] very annoyed or disappointed about something I can't believe Ronaldo missed the goal with that shot. He must be sick as a parrot about it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers sick as a pig [British] very annoyed and upset about something Les has just been sacked from his job. He's as sick as a pig. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers worried sick extremely worried Where have you been? I've been worried sick about you. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: sick bed While many speculated that he might never return, he kept a firm grip from his sick bed on the company he founded in 1976. Times, Sunday Times And it's bad enough being ill without having to worry that there's a meter running on your sick bed. The Sun That's why as soon as we allow ourselves to rest, viruses flare up and the sick bed beckons. The Sun But he spent more time in his sick bed talking to servants. Times, Sunday Times As it was, they left our economy fighting for life on its sick bed. The Sun I am violently sick on the side of the road, bringing up only bile because there's no food in me. The Sun On our penultimate day while sitting round the pool, one of the other guests sitting behind us was violently sick all over the sunbed. Times, Sunday Times Another time he came home and was violently sick and seemed to be in a coma. The Sun And the chemo has also left him with freezing hands, a bruised windpipe and feeling violently sick and 'shattered'. The Sun She was violently sick and feverish and medics feared she'd had a severe allergic reaction. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 病的, 病人 Japanese: 吐き気がする, 病人 |
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