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*sick¹ /sɪk; sɪk/
adj
1 suffering from a disease or illness; ill 有病的，患病的，不适的:
Jan's not coming in today — she's sick. 简今天不来了 — 她生病了。
a sick child 生病的孩子
2 be sick to make food come up from your stomach through your mouth; VOMIT 呕吐:
Uh oh, the dog's going to be sick! 啊呀，这狗要吐了！
3 feel sick to feel as if you are going to VOMIT 感到恶心:
I felt really sick after eating all that popcorn. 我吃了那些爆米花之后感到很恶心。
4 be sick (and tired) of sth also 又作 be sick to death of sth to be annoyed and bored with a situation that has gone on for too long 对某事物感到很厌烦:
I'm sick to death of all this arguing. 我对这争论烦得要命。
5 sth makes me sick spoken used to say that something makes you very angry 【口】 某事令我很生气:
When I hear about people being cruel to animals, it makes me sick. 听说有人虐待动物我就很生气。
6 someone who is sick does things that are strange and cruel 〔行为〕病态的，变态的:
The murders are obviously the work of a sick mind. 这几宗凶杀案很明显是一个变态的人干的。
7 sick stories, jokes etc deal with death and suffering in a cruel and unpleasant way 〔故事、笑话等〕恐怖的，残酷的
8 formal or literary 【正式或文】 the sick people who are ill 病人:
nurses taking care of the sick and wounded 照料伤病员的护士
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