disease

相關對話：

1. The rapid spread of the disease is alarming the medical authorities.
   這種疾病的迅速蔓延使醫療當局感到憂慮不安。
2. The treatment arrested the growth of the disease.
   治療抑制了病情的發展。
3. The entire population was wiped out by the terrible disease.
   所有的居民都被可怕的疾病奪去了生命。
4. It is reported that this disease attacks the central nervous system.
   據報導說這種疾病破壞中樞神經系統。
5. He postulated that a cure for the disease will have been found by the year 2000.
   他推斷到2000年能研究出治癒該病的方法。
6. The disease is still in its primary stage.
   這疾病仍然在初發階段。
7. The poor man has a serious disease of the liver.
   這個可憐的人患有嚴重的肝病。
8. Many diseases are caused by bacteria.
   許多疾病是由細菌引起的。

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英文解釋：

名詞 disease:

1. an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

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詞意辨析：

decease, disease

這兩個單詞的拼寫僅有一個字母不同。
decease: ／di'si: s／是“死亡”、“去世”；與death相比，decease是正式用語，常見於法律條文中。

• Upon the decease of so-and-so，the sum of money will pass to his wife and children.
  某某死後，整筆錢歸他妻子及兒女所有。
• The decease rate in that country is very high.
  那個國家的死亡率很高。
• The general's decease left the army without a leader.
  將軍死亡使這支軍隊群龍無首。

disease: ／di'zi:z／是“患病”、“疾病”。acute disease是“急性病”；chronic disease是“慢性病”； family disease是“遺傳病”。

• The task of a doctor is to prevent or cure diseases.
  醫生的職責是預防或冶療疾病。
• Nowadays more and more people treat diseases by acupuncture.
  如今愈來愈多人用針灸治療疾病。
• Your right lung is diseased.
  你的右肺有病。

illness, sickness, disease, complaint

這些名詞均有“疾病”之意。
illness: 不具體指，而是泛指一切疾病，強調生病的時間或狀態，語體較sickness正式一些。
sickness: 較口語化，可與illness換用，但還可表示“噁心”。
disease: 指具體的疾病，且通常較嚴重，發病時間也較長。
complaint: 現代英文中，既可指症狀，也可指疾病。