malady

英 [ˈmælədi]

美 [ˈmælədi]

n. 严重问题; 痼疾; 疾病

复数：maladies　

TOEFL TEM8 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

There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered.
他的妻子因长期害肺病死了。优先权，重点；
He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
他21岁时突患致残重疾。
It was around this time that the first symptoms of the malady that was to dog him appeared: tingling, then numbness in his fingers and toes;
大约在那个时候，困扰他的疾病的最初症状出现了：刺痛、手指脚趾麻木，后来发展到上下台阶或走坡路时失去平衡。
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。
The first malady here is that content owners are relying on their own opinions and preferences.
这里，第一个弊端在于：内容拥有者信赖他们自己的看法和偏好。
"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。
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。
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。
This malady tries me so much.
这个病使我非常痛苦。
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。