ailment

英语

词源

源自ail +‎ -ment。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈeɪlmənt/

• 音頻 (美國)：

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名词

ailment (複數 ailments)

1. 疾病
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

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衍生词汇

• status ailment

延伸阅读

• “ailment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ailment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

异序词

• aliment, maltine, netmail