1 [U] the state of being ill 患病;不适:
A lot of workers are absent because of sickness.许多工人因病缺勤。
2 [U] a feeling in your stomach that may make you bring up food through your mouth 恶心:
Symptoms of the disease include sickness and diarrhoea.那种疾病的症状包括上吐下泻。
3 [C,U] a particular type of illness 病;疾病:
pills for seasickness晕船药丸☞Look at sleeping sickness. 参看sleeping sickness。
sickness/ˋsIknIs; ˈsIknəs or ˈsIknIs/n [U] 1 when you VOMIT (=bring food up from your stomach through your mouth) [→ morning sickness] 恶心﹔呕吐: sickness and diarrhoea 呕吐和腹泻travel/motion/sea sickness (=caused by travel, movement etc) 旅行眩晕/动晕症/晕船2 the state of being ill [ illness ] 患病: people suffering from radiation sickness 受到辐射而生病的人