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

• They are managing to control the malady into a small range.
  他们设法将疾病控制在小范围之内。
• 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。
• The doctor analyzed the symptoms of the malady to which the prisoner had succumbed, and declared that he was dead.
  医生分析了犯人所得的病症，宣布他已经死了。
• 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。
• Since the first attack I experienced of this malady, I have continually reflected on it.
  自从我得了这种病第一次发作以来我就不断地想到它。
• "It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor.
  “这种病我们叫做偏执狂。”医生说道。
• 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。
• Love saw the malady of sin, and sought a balm of healing.
  爱看见了罪的奴性，就寻找一个释放的途径。
• Dogmatism is a malady in the academic research nowadays.
  独断论是当今学术研究的弊病。
• Patient: Well, I seem to have a strange malady.
  病人：嗯，我好像得了一种怪病。