problem that affects a particular part of the body.

condition指长期影响身体某部 位的健康问题：

► Asthma can be a very frightening condition, especiaH_y in a chiid 哮喘 有时会是一种非常可怕的 疾病，尤其是对儿童。

，She suffers from a heart condition.她患有心脏病。

In more formal contexts and with more serious diseases you can talk about people suffering from and contracting diseases.

在较正式的语境中以及患上较严重的疾病可用 suffer from 和 contract:

►                    This medicine is often recommended by doctors for their patients who suffer from arthritis.

医生常建议患关节炎的病人服这种药。

►                    peop〖e who contract Aids感染上艾滋病的人

Being H丨身体不适

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prescription 处方

ointment 药裔

syringe注射器 needle针头

He’s got a temperature. (8r£) He has a fever. (NAmÊ)

他发烧。

Having a disease 患病

People usually talk about having a disease or an illness.

患病通常用动词have:

►                    Vm warning you — I have a bad cold.

我可提醒你，我患了重感冒。

Have the kids had chickenpox yet?

孩子们出过水痘吗？

When you start to have a disease or an illness you catch it, get it or come down with it.

生病或发病用动词catch、get或come down with:

►                    I must have caught this cold from you. 我这感冒肯定是你传染的。

►                    He gets really bad hay fever every summer. 他每年夏天都患严重的花粉症。

►                    Vve been sneezing and coughing all day _ I must be coming down with something.

我整天都打喷嚏和咳嗽，肯定是病了。

 

condition指长期影响身体某部 位的健康问题：

► Asthma can be a very frightening condition, especiaH_y in a chiid 哮喘 有时会是一种非常可怕的 疾病，尤其是对儿童。

，She suffers from a heart condition.她患有心脏病。

In more formal contexts and with more serious diseases you can talk about people suffering from and contracting diseases.

在较正式的语境中以及患上较严重的疾病可用 suffer from 和 contract:

►                    This medicine is often recommended by doctors for their patients who suffer from arthritis.

医生常建议患关节炎的病人服这种药。

►                    peop〖e who contract Aids感染上艾滋病的人

Being H丨身体不适

0懺掣JC1ISH

prescription 处方

ointment 药裔

syringe注射器 needle针头

He’s got a temperature. (8r£) He has a fever. (NAmÊ)

他发烧。

Having a disease 患病

People usually talk about having a disease or an illness.

患病通常用动词have:

►                    Vm warning you — I have a bad cold.

我可提醒你，我患了重感冒。

Have the kids had chickenpox yet?

孩子们出过水痘吗？

When you start to have a disease or an illness you catch it, get it or come down with it.

生病或发病用动词catch、get或come down with:

►                    I must have caught this cold from you. 我这感冒肯定是你传染的。

►                    He gets really bad hay fever every summer. 他每年夏天都患严重的花粉症。

►                    Vve been sneezing and coughing all day _ I must be coming down with something.

我整天都打喷嚏和咳嗽，肯定是病了。

There are different ways of talking about being or becoming ill in British and American English.

在英国英语和美国英语中身体不适有各种不同的

说法：

►                    JVe never been so ill in my life.

我一生中从未生过这么重的病（be ill)。

►                    Wha^s wrong?

Are you feeling unwell? (both BrE)

哪里不治劲啦？你感觉木舒服吗（feel unwell)?

►                    He}s not in the office today — he’s sick. [NAmE) 他今天没有上班，他病了（be sick)。

►                    She was taken ill (= became ill suddenly) with severe pains in the stomach. [BrE)

她突然病了（be taken ill),胃痛得厉害。

►                    I just can!t afford to get sick. [NAmE)

義可是病（get sick)不起的。

To feel sick means different things in British and American English. In American English it means that you feel ill.

fed sick在英国英语和美国英语中含义不同，在 美国英语中意为感到身体不适：

►                    He began feeling sick Fńday afternoon and was diagnosed as having suffered a minor heart attack.他星期五下午开始感到不适，被诊断为 轻微的心脏病发作。

In British English it means that you feel that you want to vomit (= bring food up from your stomach).

在英国英语中该短语表示想呕吐：

►                    The smell of stale cigarettes always makes me/ee〖 sicfc.发霉的香烟味总使我感到恶心。

To express this idea in American English, you can use sick to your stomach.

在美国英语中可用sick to sb’s stomach表示此义：

The smell of stale cigarettes always makes me sick to my stomach.