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单词 travel sick
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travel sickadj.

Brit. /ˈtravl sɪk/, U.S. /ˈtræv(ə)l ˌsɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: travel n., sick adj.
Etymology: < travel n. + sick adj.
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.
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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).
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