ailment是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 疾病,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "But he talked of flannel waistcoats," said Marianne; "and with me a flannel waistcoat is invariably connected with aches, cramps, rheumatisms, and every species of ailment that can afflict the old and the feeble."
-- Poor Marianne, languid and low from the nature of her malady, and feeling herself universally ill, could no longer hope that tomorrow would find her recovered; and the idea of what tomorrow would have produced, but for this unlucky illness, made every ailment severe; for on that day they were to have begun their journey home; and, attended the whole way by a servant of Mrs. Jennings, were to have taken their mother by surprise on the following forenoon.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then he noticed that his eyes were beginning to hurt him, and this ailment rapidly increased until, in the dark chambers of the lodgings he frequented, he did not attempt to read.
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