单词 | health |
释义 | health (once / 39 pages) n Your health is the condition of your body. If you barely get any sleep and only eat frozen pizza and jellybeans, you probably have poor health. Health comes from the old English word for "whole," and you can think of it as the state of your whole being — both body and mind. We use health to talk about bodies and people, but also to talk about whole systems. If you lost your job, you might be worried about the health of your finances. If a bad manager provokes employees to be unproductive, investors might be worried about the health of a business. WORD FAMILYhealth: healthful, healths, healthy+/healthful: healthfulest, healthfully, healthfulness, unhealthful/healthy: healthier, healthiest, healthily, healthiness, unhealthy/unhealthful: unhealthfully, unhealthfulness/unhealthy: unhealthier, unhealthiest, unhealthily, unhealthiness USAGE EXAMPLESBut according to experts, checking your weight is a misguided, demoralizing way to gauge overall health. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) For example, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute does health rankings of counties in every state. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The United States spends more than $64 billion each year on oral health care, of which only 4 percent is paid for by government programs. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n the general condition of body and mind his delicate health in poor health Hyper condition, status a state at a particular time 2n a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients Syn|Ant|Hyper wellness illness, malady, sickness, unwellness impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous |
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