| 单词 | aches and pains |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaches and pains aches and pains: sensations of mild, often chronic, pain or general physical discomfort. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ix. 239 A Notable secrete for all incurable aches & paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. lxxxiv. 132 The aches and pains of the ioynts. 1796 W. Buchan Observ. Prevention & Cure Venereal Dis. ix. 216 People who have had occasion to take mercury, are apt to impute all the aches and pains they feel afterwards, to this medicine lying in the body. 1846 Times 17 Feb. 6/4 The landed interest, like a creaking gate or a valetudinarian gentleman,..recounting its manifold aches and pains..and..obtaining a lion's share of the public attention and sympathies. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. v. [Lotus Eaters] 81 Lots of time taken up telling your aches and pains. 1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie xi. 253 The fact that many Catholics read the council to mean ‘anything goes’ would soon bring on additional aches and pains. 2005 Femina (S. Afr.) Feb. 26/1 Perfumed salt crystals that transform your bath into a spa to soothe away aches and pains. < as lemmas |
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