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单词 illness
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illness
(ɪlnəs )
Word forms: illnesses
1. uncountable noun B2
Illness is the fact or experience of being ill.
If your child shows any signs of illness, take her to the doctor.
Mental illness is still a taboo subject.
2. countable noun B1+
An illness is a particular disease such as measles or pneumonia.
She returned to her family home to recover from an illness.
Synonyms: sickness, ill health, malaise, attack  
Collocations:
battle an illness
I'm battling a serious illness and that is more important to me right now.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
His daughter confirmed that he had been battling an undisclosed illness.
The Sun (2015)
Both of them battled serious illnesses during their childhood.
The Sun (2013)
cause an illness
Smoking also causes other illnesses such as emphysema and cardiovascular problems.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It does not usually cause illness in healthy people.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He remains cautious about whether anxiety actually causes illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
chronic illness
Being told you have a chronic illness can have an effect on the way you think and feel about yourself also.
Coping with Angina (1990)
Despite his chronic illness, he lives on his own in a specially adapted bungalow.
The Sun (2012)
Reports suggest that she has had a relapse of a chronic illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
depressive illness
Her first marriage to an actor who suffered from a depressive illness ended in the 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
About a third of children and adolescents who have depressive illnesses will have recurrent episodes, including into adulthood.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
We also found out that he'd suffered from a depressive illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
detect an illness
And cats can certainly detect illness.
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It turns out, our brains are quite finely tuned to detecting illness in others.
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It called for standard assessments to detect illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times
They hope their threeyear project will lead to a reliable test for detecting the illness.
The Sun
diagnose illness
My father died within four months of his illness being diagnosed.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
She spent a year in hospital after doctors failed at first to diagnose the illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He said his illness was diagnosed recently after rapid weight loss.
The Sun (2016)
experience illness
Motivation may link to the meaning through which people experience illness and treatment.
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It was believed that the spot struck on the straw doll corresponded to the area of the body where the target would begin to experience illness or injury.
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Manners later admitted that the episode was his only credit for the series during which he experienced illness.
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Pesticides and other chemicals used in farming can also be hazardous to worker health, and workers exposed to pesticides may experience illnesses or birth defects.
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fatal illness
Only 77 people suffered from the fatal illness during last year.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But she was suffering from a fatal illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This is about protecting our daughters from a potentially fatal illness and it is wonderful news.
The Sun (2007)
illness prevention
Your cavalier approach to illness prevention abroad compounds the problem.
Times, Sunday Times
It has also been determined that people have become more proactive in illness prevention and control.
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These broader issues include education, housing, employment, rural and regional development, telecommunications, transport, cultural safety, illness prevention, health promotion, and health infrastructure.
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Practitioners emphasize education and effective communication as a part of illness prevention because many people do not recognize, or minimize, the risk of illness present in their lives.
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illness progresses
On the same trip, he visits a care home that looks after people with the illness, where residents move from one unit to the next as their illness progresses.
Times, Sunday Times
As the illness progresses, severe bruising and nosebleeds are also common.
Times, Sunday Times
So when doctors are vague about time scales, it's not that they are avoiding the issue - although as the illness progresses and the situation becomes clearer, second guessing gets easier.
The Sun
illness strikes
On a good day, the royal ablutions will start; on a bad day, illness strikes.
Times, Sunday Times
When critical illness strikes, it makes no allowance for new doctors' ignorance of a patient's medical background.
Times, Sunday Times
When illness strikes, patients elsewhere can more readily choose between an array of different providers, with this competitive dynamism encouraging innovation and efficiency.
Times, Sunday Times
incurable illness
To then have the additional stress and despair that come with an incurable illness makes for a relationship that can only be fraught with deep unhappiness.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In September 2013 a consultant delivered news of her incurable illness.
The Sun (2015)
The option would not be available to those with a long-term incurable illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
infectious illness
In the light of present concerns, it would also have the merit of easier testing and quarantine for infectious illness.
The Times Literary Supplement
Which public health agencies were best configured in planning for the outbreak of an infectious illness and which had allowed their attention to drift into less urgent policy matters?
Times,Sunday Times
Every professional party-goer knows you accept (with a delay so as not to look keen) and then bail on the night with a mysterious, highly infectious illness.
The Sun
With the notable exception of food poisoning, most infectious illnesses strike one member first, with others following suit over the next few days.
Times, Sunday Times
life-threatening illness
They do not understand the impact of living with a life-limiting and life-threatening illness.
Times, Sunday Times
But suppose you and your family have never experienced the drawn-out battle of life-threatening illness?
Christianity Today
It's exhausting, convincing yourself you might have a life-threatening illness.
Times, Sunday Times
People with the condition can rapidly deteriorate from flu-like symptoms to life-threatening illness within hours.
Times, Sunday Times
The families of patients who have lost a loved one through a life-threatening illness also deserve to be protected in their bereavement from the continuing reverberations of ill-considered human actions.
Times, Sunday Times
long illness
Mum had a long illness and it has hit us very hard.
The Sun (2006)
During his long final illness he mustered the energy to publish his memoir.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
When people die after a long illness it's easier because you have time to prepare.
The Sun (2009)
long-term illness
People who are elderly, poor or have long-term illness are most in danger.
The Sun (2016)
My husband has a long-term illness and needed to go to the hospital for tests.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Society today is grappling with new diseases often linked to chronic long-term illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
mild illness
A third infected relative developed only a mild illness and has since recovered.
Times, Sunday Times
She knows others who had a mild illness originally, but still have lingering symptoms.
Times,Sunday Times
A few days of mild illness followed, and then they were immune.
The Times Literary Supplement
All have shown only mild illness.
Times, Sunday Times
How quickly this happens, and how your body reacts, plays a big part in determining whether you have a mild illness or end up in intensive care.
Times,Sunday Times
minor illness
These units deal with the patients with minor illnesses or injuries.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Patients have been urged not to ask for antibiotics for minor illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It strengthens the immune system to combat minor illnesses.
The Sun (2008)
mysterious illness
It's an afternoon kick-off so there could be a mysterious illness spreading through the country that day preventing people from getting to work.
Times, Sunday Times
Last year she had a mysterious illness and undisclosed medical treatment.
Times, Sunday Times
Then in her early twenties she was struck down with a mysterious illness that rendered her partially conscious for nearly a decade - more of this later.
Times, Sunday Times
Recently, the number of gharial crocodiles was reduced by a mysterious illness that caused liver failure, and the early monsoon washed away one of their few remaining nesting islands.
Times, Sunday Times
The letter describes how she became sick and succumbed to a mysterious illness, later revealed to be radiation poisoning.
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mystery illness
A teenager has been forced to quit school because of a mystery illness that causes her to vomit up to 20 times a day.
The Sun (2016)
The defender was admitted to hospital to undergo tests for a mystery illness.
The Sun (2006)
She had earlier spent two days in hospital with a mystery illness.
The Sun (2006)
painful illness
When he died in 1798, after a long and painful illness, it had still not progressed beyond 1774.
The Times Literary Supplement
Soon after he caught cold and died after a painful illness.
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The death notice stated that she died after a long and painful illness.
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He retained the chair till 1836, when he resigned in consequence of a painful illness that finally caused his death.
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He continued to edit the paper with great courage through a long and painful illness.
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physical illness
These include physical illness, learning disabilities and behavioural problems.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Most will have relatively mild symptoms linked to underlying problems such as work and relationship difficulties, financial troubles, physical illness or bereavement.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
That can be just as disabling as any physical illness.
Hambly, Dr Kenneth Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life (1991)
These episodes are often triggered by stressful experiences or physical illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They think they have a physical illness and most of their families do too.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
prevent illness
Lots of doctors don't perform the simple task of washing their hands when that would prevent illness and save lives.
The Times Literary Supplement
Numerous studies show that being chipper also helps prevent illness by boosting the immune system and can add nine years to your life.
The Sun
Doctors are supposed to diagnose, treat and try to prevent illness.
Times, Sunday Times
Astronauts are routinely quarantined before take-off to prevent illness in space.
Times, Sunday Times
These explicitly set out to prevent illness and promote health, especially in those out of work, and emphasised the importance of quality and patient experience in healthcare.
Times, Sunday Times
preventable illness
This program targeted ten leading causes of preventable illness and death for concerted public and personal action.
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Reducing meat consumption by 15% (the equivalent of one day a week) lessens the risk of chronic preventable illness and has a strong positive impact on the environment.
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Routine tests and screening for preventable illnesses were said to have been missed, or symptoms were ignored by medical staff.
Times, Sunday Times
prolonged illness
During this time, he contracted a prolonged illness, which continued until the end of the summer of 1917.
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His prolonged illness, the resulting lack of income, and the expense of maintaining several homes had consumed nearly all of his net worth.
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Nestle began writing fiction in 1978, when a prolonged illness prevented her from teaching for a year.
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However, most of her other films released during this time were marred by her absence and subsequent lack of completion due to her prolonged illness.
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He began writing during a prolonged illness that cut short a potential diplomatic career.
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psychiatric illness
Stress also worsens all psychiatric illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
As it is, her career is over and she has an enduring psychiatric illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He increased understanding of the biology of psychiatric illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
psychological illness
If you are a senior manager, the chances are you employ people who will, at times, struggle with psychological illness.
Times, Sunday Times
Hundreds of council staff are taking time off sick, blaming stress and psychological illness.
Times, Sunday Times
These included heart disease, stroke, back pain and psychological illness.
Times, Sunday Times
And your father and sister are victims — of a terrifying psychological illness over which neither they nor you have any control.
Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, rates of anxiety and psychological illness (more serious than arithmophobia) have been rising despite our riches, or perhaps because of them.
Times, Sunday Times
psychosomatic illness
But then psychosomatic illness, perhaps unsurprisingly, evades easy answers or easy cures anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
Not surprisingly he developed a particular interest in psychosomatic illness, often treating patients who had baffled local services.
Times, Sunday Times
I have developed a psychosomatic illness.
Times, Sunday Times
But she did speculate that too great an interest in one's body and health might be linked to psychosomatic illness.
Times, Sunday Times
They put forth the idea that strong emotions could lead to bodily ailments, the basis of todays theory of psychosomatic illness.
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rare illness
She was struck down by a rare illness that first gave her headaches, then sapped the strength from her limbs.
The Sun
His luck took a more serious blow when he was diagnosed with a rare illness.
The Sun
Then his own brain was attacked by a rare illness.
Christianity Today
Some researchers will want access to data that could be identifiable, for example, on people with rare illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times
Looking at this data, gathered with the help of patients with rare illnesses, will allow scientists to discover which genes are responsible for particular conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
respiratory illness
Most respiratory illnesses tend to worsen one to two weeks into the New Year.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The gas comes mostly from diesel fumes and can cause respiratory illness and premature death.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Rises in respiratory illnesses were reported.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
serious illness
I'm battling a serious illness and that is more important to me right now.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
As with recovery from any potentially serious illness it will take time, and require patience and care.
Beyond Chaotic Eating (1993)
But the effects will not be confined to children with this serious illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
severe illness
Other triggers include stress, surgery and severe illness, with hairs typically starting to fall out six to ten weeks after the event.
Times, Sunday Times
He has a potentially severe illness and has undoubtedly struggled.
The Sun
Likewise, it isn't convincing if an athlete points to a severe illness if, at the time, he was in full training.
Times, Sunday Times
He added that trials had strongly implied that ibuprofen specifically could result in more severe illness or complications.
Times,Sunday Times
Although outbreaks can affect large numbers of the equine population, it rarely causes severe illness and fatalities are rare.
Times, Sunday Times
short illness
He died in his sleep at his home in Weymouth after a short illness.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It was a short illness.
The Sun (2016)
She passed away peacefully at a nursing home after a short illness.
The Sun (2008)
sign of illness
Pals said he showed no sign of illness or discomfort during his interview.
The Sun
After leading a normal childhood, with no obvious sign of illness, he became prone to periods of intense tiredness, when he felt like sleeping all the time.
Times, Sunday Times
The birds showed no sign of illness or mortality.
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In these cases, people show very little sign of illness.
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He visited a hospital for medical tests and examination but doctors found no sign of illness.
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smoking-related illness
Smokers who start early in life-like me-are many times more likely to contract a smoking-related illness.
Christianity Today
Restricting their use means forgoing a powerful way of easing the burden that smoking-related illnesses place on our health services.
Times, Sunday Times
It can hardly be argued that young people are unaware of the dangers of smoking, given the graphic images of smoking-related illnesses that currently decorate cigarette and tobacco packets.
Times, Sunday Times
A decision to put graphic images of smoking-related illnesses on cigarette packets appears to have backfired, with a study suggesting that sales have increased for the first time in years.
Times, Sunday Times
This led to a $246 billion settlement against medical costs incurred from smoking-related illnesses.
Times, Sunday Times
stomach illness
His wife has a serious stomach illness and has been allowed to make just one brief call to her daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
However, due to a stomach illness, the bout was cancelled.
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He became sick with a stomach illness and died peacefully, surrounded by his disciples.
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Her 2013 season was affected by a recurring stomach illness which was eventually diagnosed as a symptom of a hiatus hernia.
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At the same time, however, he had some personal problems and a serious stomach illness (which did not get better even after a medical operation).
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stress-related illness
I think it [the stress-related illness] was essentially burn-out.
Times, Sunday Times
Retired from international cricket due to the risk of a return of his stress-related illness.
The Sun
Citing a stress-related illness, he submitted a written statement.
Times, Sunday Times
Practitioners believe that it can help with all forms of stress-related illness and can help people to become more attentive, compassionate and happy.
Times, Sunday Times
He received treatment for what was described as a stress-related illness.
The Sun
sudden illness
He claimed that hospital staff had gone to 'enormous' lengths to detect the cause of his son's sudden illness and were 'only left with [the plant] as a possibility'.
Times, Sunday Times
It comes as research shows just one change in circumstances - such as sudden illness, family breakdown, bereavement, job loss or retirement - can push households closer to the breadline.
The Sun
He only owed his life on this occasion to a sudden illness.
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While on a skiing vacation, he experienced a sudden illness and went into cardiac arrest after doctors attempted to insert a breathing tube.
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Removed due to a sudden illness on the final morning of the trial.
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suffer an illness
Around one in four people suffer a mental illness and it's important they realise there is help.
The Sun (2010)
I spoke to doctors treating people suffering chronic illnesses linked to chemical spraying.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
How many more are suffering mental illness brought on by the stresses of political life?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
suffer illness
How many people might suffer illness or worse as a result of this inaction?
Times, Sunday Times
They say they have suffered illnesses - including cancers, skin defects and fertility problems - because of exposure to radiation from the tests.
Times, Sunday Times
Some have married (and remarried), become parents (or not), divorced, emigrated, suffered illness and accidents.
Times, Sunday Times
In one case, a worker at a company selling tyres sued his employers alleging that he had suffered illness as a result of exposure to benzene.
Times, Sunday Times
This was problematic because many of the members were becoming old and several suffered illnesses.
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symptom of an illness
Treating the headache or rash might alleviate a symptom of the illness but would not treat the cause.
Times, Sunday Times
Again, that's a symptom of an illness, of synapses misfiring in the brain.
Times, Sunday Times
Accumulating navy knitwear may sound innocuous enough - everyone has their go-to repeat purchases - but, for me, it was a symptom of an illness.
Times, Sunday Times
Virtually all types of individual psychotherapy are used in the treatment of schizophreniform disorder, except for insight-oriented therapies as patients often have limited insight as a symptom of their illness.
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People are more likely to search for the symptoms of the illness on the internet before they visit their doctor, goes the logic.
Times, Sunday Times
treat an illness
Researchers said that pulses of targeted ultrasound can be used to treat the illness without the need for surgery.
Times,Sunday Times
Most doctors simply evaluate the patient, diagnose and treat the illness.
canada.com
The artificial skin could even have medicine added to treat the illness.
The Sun
The medicines used to treat his illness made him nauseous and inhibited his appetite.
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And we know so much more now about preventing and treating the illness.
The Sun
treatable illness
Yet somewhere along the line we were convinced this entirely normal behaviour was a serious but treatable illness.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a treatable illness, but you can't treat it on your own.
Times, Sunday Times
The growth on his spine was inflammation from a rare but treatable illness.
The Sun
Once admitted to hospital, even with treatable illnesses, some never leave alive.
The Sun
Neglecting early symptoms of otherwise treatable illnesses will store up problems for the future.
Times,Sunday Times
treatment of an illness
As the writer and performer of this new autobiographical solo show he has apparently been criticised for his treatment of an illness experienced by a female character we never see.
Times, Sunday Times
He underwent brain surgery and radiation therapy for the treatment of this illness.
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There has been much disagreement over proposed causes, diagnosis, and treatment of the illness.
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trigger an illness
Loss of a loved one or other serious trauma in the first three months of pregnancy were almost 70 per cent more likely to trigger the illness.
The Sun
The little sac attached to the gut acts as a 'major reservoir' for rogue brain proteins that trigger the illness.
The Sun
He was jailed for three-and-a-half years and reckons the ordeal triggered his illness.
The Sun
The sight of the burnt-out block in the area was a 'constant reminder' which had triggered some illnesses.
The Sun
What triggers the illness remains a mystery, he said.
Houston Chronicle
viral illness
For almost a year after that, the club attributed the midfielder's prolonged absences to a viral illness before revealing the truth.
Times, Sunday Times
But many in the game were unconvinced by the 'viral illness'.
The Sun
She pulled out before the tournament began with a viral illness.
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Acute bronchitis often occurs during the course of an acute viral illness such as the common cold or influenza.
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In 93% of cases a viral illness had occurred in the preceding three-week period.
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Translations:
Chinese: 疾病
Japanese: 病気
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