sick

英 [s?k] 美[s?k]

反義詞

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比較級:?sicker;最高級:?sickest;

sick 生病的，有病的，病態(tài)的，欲嘔的

來自古英語 seoc,生病的，來自 Proto-Germanic*seukaz,生病的，來自 PIE*seug,悲傷的，有麻煩的。引申諸相關(guān)詞義。

sick: sick: [OE] The ultimate origins of sick are a mystery. It has been traced back to a hypothetical prehistoric Germanic *seukaz, but beyond that nothing certain is known. Its modern relatives are German siech, Dutch ziek, Swedish sjuk, and Danish syg.
sick (v.): "to chase, set upon" (as in command sick him!), 1845, dialectal variant of seek. Used as an imperative to incite a dog to attack a person or animal; hence "cause to pursue." Related: Sicked; sicking.
sick (adj.): "unwell," Old English seoc "ill, diseased, feeble, weak; corrupt; sad, troubled, deeply affected," from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, of uncertain origin. The general Germanic word (Old Norse sjukr, Danish syg, Old Saxon siok, Old Frisian siak, Middle Dutch siec, Dutch ziek, Old High German sioh, Gothic siuks "sick, ill"), but in German and Dutch displaced by krank "weak, slim," probably originally with a sense of "twisted, bent" (see crank (n.)).

Restricted meaning "having an inclination to vomit, affected with nausea" is from 1610s; sense of "tired or weary (of something), disgusted from satiety" is from 1590s; phrase sick and tired of is attested from 1783. Meaning "mentally twisted" in modern colloquial use is from 1955, a revival of the word in this sense from 1550s (sense of "spiritually or morally corrupt" was in Old English, which also had seocmod "infirm of mind"); sick joke is from 1958.
sick (n.): "those who are sick," Old English seoce, from sick (adj).

4. He was worried sick about what our mothers would say.: 對于我們雙方的母親會說什么他十分擔(dān)心。

5. I really don't feel a bit sick, no night sweats, no fevers.: 我真的感覺一點毛病也沒有，沒盜汗也不發(fā)熱。