| 单词 | ailing |
| 释义 | ailing (once / 1748 pages) adj Someone who's ailing is sick. You might visit your ailing grandmother in the hospital. You can use the adjective ailing to describe someone who's very ill, or use it figuratively, to talk about "our ailing economy," or "the ailing school system." The next time you call in sick to work, you might say, "I can't come in today — I'm afraid I'm ailing." Ailing comes from the verb ail, "trouble or afflict," from the Old English eglan, "to trouble, plague, or pain." WORD FAMILYail: ailed, ailing, ailment, ails+/ailment: ailments USAGE EXAMPLESBut he suggests that a government might justifiably hamper international trade, or subsidize an ailing industry, in order to sustain particular communities and particular jobs. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) We’ve written about ailing Navy veterans fighting to prove they were exposed to the chemicals off Vietnam’s coast. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) Desperate to find a cure for their ailing son’s hemophilia, one night they called upon Rasputin. Time(Dec 29, 2016) adj somewhat ill or prone to illness my poor ailing grandmother Syn indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell ill, sick affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function |
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