malady

英 [ˈmælədi]

美 [ˈmælədi]

n.  严重问题; 痼疾; 疾病

复数：maladies　

TOEFLTEM8医学

BNC.22759 / COCA.15568

牛津词典

noun

• 严重问题；痼疾
  a serious problem
  1. Violent crime is only one of the maladies afflicting modern society.
     暴力犯罪仅仅是困扰现代社会的严重问题之一。
• 疾病
  an illness

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 病；疾病
  Amaladyis an illness or disease.
  1. He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
     他21岁时突患致残重疾。
• N-COUNT (书面语中，指社会、环境等的)严重问题，弊病，弊端
  In written English, people sometimes usemaladiesto refer to serious problems in a society or situation.
  1. When apartheid is over the maladies will linger on.
     废除了种族隔离政策后痼疾依然存在。
  2. ...the maladies of love.
     爱情的弊端

英英释义

noun

• impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
  Synonym:illnessunwellnesssickness
• any unwholesome or desperate condition
  1. what maladies afflict our nation?

双语例句

• You cannot prescribe for a malady unless you diagnose it accurately and understand its causes.
  如果诊断不准确、对病因不了解，你就不可能对症下药。
• A bodily disorder or disease; a malady or an ailment.
  疾病身体的失调或疾病；疾病或小毛病。
• She was scared ( to death) at [ by] the strange noise. My child will not die of that frightful malady, for lack of succor.
  她被奇怪的声响吓了一跳（吓得要死）。我的孩子不会死了，那种病，吓坏我了，现在她有救了。
• It is like a mental disease, which is cured when the cause or the secret of the malady is discovered and seen by the patient.
  它就像一种精神疾病，当原因和疯狂的秘密被发现并被病人看到时它就治疗好了。
• Economy law as a branch of law is overcoming the innate malady of market economy.
  经济法就是为了克服市场经济本身的痼疾而出现的法律部门。
• I suffer a malady that no balm can cure!
  可叹的是我的病痛却找不到香膏来治愈。
• This malady tries me so much.
  这个病使我非常痛苦。
• Once people's thinking becomes rigid, book worship, divorced from reality, becomes a grave malady.
  思想一僵化，不从实际出发的本本主义也就严重起来了。
• He tried the baths there for an internal malady.
  他到那儿洗温泉对他的内科病进行浴疗。
• That malady is not the dreaded H1N1 virus, nor bronchitis, appendicitis, or tonsillitis.
  那种病不是令人闻之色变的H1N1新型流感，也不是支气管炎、盲肠炎或扁桃腺炎。