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sicken

英 ['sɪk(ə)n] 美 ['sɪkən]

解释

vt. 使患病；使恶心；使嫌恶
vi. 生病；变厌腻

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中文词源

sicken 使震惊，使愤怒

sick,生病的，欲呕的，-en,使。引申比喻义使震惊，使愤怒。

英文词源

sicken (v.): c. 1200, "to become ill," from sick (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive sense of "to make sick" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Sickened; sickening. The earlier verb was simply sick (Old English seocan) "to be ill, fall ill."

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例句和用法

1. The animal began to sicken and soon died.: 这只动物患了病很快就死了.

2. Only Mother Shipton - once the strongest of the party - seemed to sicken and fade.: 只有席蒲顿妈妈 — 以前是他们中最坚强的 — 似乎虚弱、憔悴.

3. Fitzpiers had hardly been gone an hour when Grace began to sicken.: 菲茨比尔斯走后几乎不到一个小时,格雷丝就开始发病了.

4. I began to sicken of the endless violence shown on television.: 我逐渐对电视上无尽无休的暴力镜头感到厌恶.

5. Their business methods sicken me.: 我很讨厌他们做生意的手法.