| 单词 | nerve-sick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnerve-sick nerve-sick n. and adj. (a) n. people with nervous disorders, viewed collectively; (b) adj. suffering from a nervous disorder; anxious or highly strung. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [adjective] > suffering from nerve-sick1854 1854 New Illustr. Hydropathic Q. Rev. No. 3 in Water-cure Jrnl. (N.Y.) June 144/2 (advt.) Ludicrous Ideas of the Nerve-sick. 1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands ii. 13 An irresistible sense of peace and detachment combined with that delicious physical awakening that pulses through the nerve-sick townsman when city airs and bald routine are left behind him, combined to provide me..with a solid background of resignation. 1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xv. 219 Poor child, to be born of quarrelling, nerve-sick parents into a home of strife. 1945 Commonweal 16 Nov. 111/2 Maybe it would help if we quit dinning other weary and nerve-sick nations with statements how strong we are. 1960 W. T. Doyle Charlotte Perkins Gilman & Cycle of Feminist Reform (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley) vi. 177 It was a wierd [sic] tale, one of the first of the psychological studies, describing a nerve-sick young mother driven mad by masculine insensitivity and the empty round of an invalid's life. < as lemmas |
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