单词 | to be taken ill |
释义 | > as lemmasto be taken ill (also sick, blind, hoarse, lame, etc.) (c) transitive (in passive). With adjectival complement, as to be taken ill (also sick, blind, hoarse, lame, etc.): to be seized or struck with a specified illness or affliction. Also used with reference to something humorously considered to be equivalent to an illness or affliction (e.g. quot. 1839). Cf. sense 4c.Frequently regional when used with complements other than ill.See also to be taken bad at bad adj., n.2, and adv. Phrases 3. ΚΠ 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 57v If any thing be stolne, or any taken lame. 1579 Detection Damnable Driftes sig. Bv The nexte daie the wife commyng out at the same doore, was taken sicke, and began to swell. 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility i. 64 Being soon after taken blind. 1664 J. Wilson Cheats v. iii. 69 Being taken very ill of a sudden. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 96. ⁋2 Master Harry was taken very ill of a Fever. 1721 S. Clifford Sin Cause of God's Displeasure 26 They were took sick, and died, and were carried to the same Place themselves. 1776 L. Carter Diary 15 Mar. (1965) II. 1002 One of these sedentary half bit Students was taken ill. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 25 She was taken ill in the night. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxviii. 270 ‘Oh, charming!’ interrupted Kate's patroness, who was sometimes taken literary. 1891 Harper's Mag. Apr. 750/1 He was taken hoarse at the last moment. 1907 A. C. Coolidge Prophet of Peace xiv. 130 Do you know, the girl was taken crazy at a Twelfth-Night party. 1920 I. A. R. Wylie Holy Fire 98 There was my Aunt Sarah—very careful she was—but one day she walked under a ladder, and three days later she was took ill. 1952 A. Christie Mrs. McGinty's Dead iv. 28 Either the husband's taken queer, or the old mother, or the children have some foul disease or other. 2010 Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 17/1 Mrs Booth was taken ill months after she stopped taking the pills. < as lemmas |
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