Illness

(noun.) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism.

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• His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I thought little of his illness at first. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His dislike of mankind, of the mass of mankind, amounted almost to an illness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Her illness or estrangement did not affect Amelia. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy's illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• If Rose had--I cannot utter that word now--if this illness had terminated differently, how could you ever have forgiven yourself! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• My illness has made me think It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• At last a day and night of peculiarly agonizing depression were succeeded by physical illness, I took perforce to my bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mrs. Peniston felt as if there had been a contagious illness in the house, and she was doomed to sit shivering among her contaminated furniture. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• In his last illness, he had it brought continually to his bedside; and but an hour before he died, he bound me by vow to keep the creature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I do not believe my illness is infectious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Old Sedley's lingering illness and death supervened, after which a meeting was for some time impossible. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She tended him through a series of unheard-of illnesses with a fidelity most admirable. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You must expect to keep open house in these last illnesses, said liberal Mrs. Vincy, once more of cheerful note and bright plumage. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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