单词 | well day |
释义 | > as lemmaswell day well day n. (also hyphenated) a day on which one is free from sickness, esp. from an attack of an intermittent disorder. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > time of freedom from ill health well day1631 1631 J. Henshaw Horæ Succisivæ ii. 161 I will take leave of them, onely as of an Ague, for a well day or two, but to come againe. 1652 A. Wood Life Aug. (1891) I. 176 What in the well-days his stomach had contracted, he would on the sick-day vomit it out. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 111 The 30th was my well day..and I went abroad with my Gun. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xv. 99 As it was one of his well days, he walked in without help. 1869 T. Carlyle Let. 6 Mar. in New Lett. (1904) II. 251 I struggle to hang by my ‘Work’..and generally do get a particle or two of it done every well-day. 1927 V. L. Parrington Main Currents Amer. Thought II. ii. ii. 82 The victim of a slight, ramshackly physique, never weighing a hundred pounds, never knowing a well day, fearfully handicapped in the everyday matter of living. 1999 Boston Globe 14 Feb. 2 On a ‘well’ day, when I wasn't in the middle of an episode, my 10-year-old looked up at me and said, out of the blue, ‘Mom, I like how you take care of me.’ 2011 L. M. Breau et al. in D. R. Patel et al. Neurodevelopmental Disabilities xvii. 256 Recent data reveal that ‘sick days’ in this population were associated with higher levels of pain and discomfort than were ‘well days’. < as lemmas |
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