单词 | travel sick |
释义 | travel sickadj. Unwell or exhausted as a result of travelling; (in later use) spec. suffering from nausea caused by the motion of a vehicle or vessel. Cf. travel sickness n. 2.Now rare in U.S. use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected by nausea > types of nausea dead-sick1535 seasicka1566 airsick1785 travel sick1833 land-sick1846 trainsick1896 carsick1908 space-sick1912 1833 tr. S. Pellico in Foreign Q. Rev. Oct. 401 Calm thee, thy wounds are green,—thyself art weary And travel-sick [It. del lungo viaggio, egro], and thou hast need of rest. 1883 Cheyenne (Wyoming) Weekly Leader 11 Jan. He dashed back into the car and brought forward his little beauty of a daughter... His wife was travel-sick, so he could not introduce her. 1935 Sun (Sydney) 9 Apr. 15/4 (advt.) Do you get ‘Travel-sick’? Take Bromural. If travelling by sea, train, car or aeroplane upsets you, take 3 tablets of Bromural. 2011 S. Sahota Ours are Streets 147 One of them complained he got travel-sick whenever he went in the back. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1833 |
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