【ailment】 - SAT备考词汇

ailment

UK:  ['eɪlmənt]

US:  ['eɪlmənt]

复数：ailments  

n.

1.病,疾病;毛病

2.小病,失调

3.病痛

4.生病

5.不适

1 . My aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered what was then thought to be a very serious heart ailment.
我的阿姨伊迪丝是一位50岁的寡妇，她是一位秘书。后来医生发现她患有严重的心脏疾病。

2 . Mathur and Rani Rasmani began to ascribe the mental ailment of Sri Ramakrishna in part, at least, to his observance of rigid continence.
马图尔和拉妮罗曼妮开始把室利罗摩克里希纳的行为部分地归咎于精神病，至少他会有严格的自制。

3 . Winter also had become acquainted with a Chinese poet-scholar Wen Yi-to, in the United States for treatment of a lung ailment.
温德还结识了到美国来治肺病的中国诗人学者闻一多。

4 . Operations included removing the breast of a woman with a minor ailment and taking part of a lung from a patient with pneumonia.
这些手术包括使用切除一名患轻微病症的妇女的乳房，以及摘除一名患肺炎的病人的肺。

5 . Traditional Chinese Medicine treats the patients as a whole, but not to cure the ailment in a particular part of the body.
中医治病是把人作为一个整体来对待，而不是头疼医头，脚疼医脚。