sick

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sick的基本意思是“有病的”,在英式英語中只用作表語,而在美式英語中則既可用作表語,也可用作定語,常用于修飾人,偶爾也用于修飾事物如sick leave(病假)。
sick有時可指與“嘔吐”有關的具體癥狀,如“惡心的,想吐的”。用于比喻可指“討厭的”“渴望的”“心煩意亂的,惱火的”等。作“膩煩的,厭惡的”解時,常后接介詞of。
sick不受heavily修飾,表示“病重”,可用seriously。
sick的比較級是sicker,最高級是sickest。

sick用作名詞的基本意思是“嘔吐物”,一般用于口語中,是不可數名詞。
sick前常加定冠詞the表示“病人”,為總稱,在句中作主語時,其謂語動詞通常用復數形式。
sick和ill的比較：兩者意思相近，前者常指遭受某種身體上的不適，后者表示不舒服的。英國人習慣將sick用作定語，修飾名詞，如sick child。而ill則常被用作定語，去修飾動詞。George didn't come in last week because he was ill.
be sick作“嘔吐的”解。 fall sick作“患病”解；I was sick three times in the night. 我一晚上嘔吐了三次。
在美式英語里，通常將sick用在身體某部分的名稱前面，如sick kidneys，sick nerves和sick hair；

Your little sister is sick, try to bear with her when she cries.
你小妹病了,她哭時你忍耐一下。

If you are sick, you are ill. Sick usually means physically ill, but it can sometimes be used to mean mentally ill.
The sick are people who are sick.
If you are sick, the food that you have eaten comes up from your stomach and out of your mouth. If you feel sick, you feel as if you are going to be sick.
If you say that you are sick of something or sick and tired of it, you are emphasizing that you are very annoyed by it and want it to stop.
If you describe something such as a joke or story as sick, you mean that it deals with death or suffering in an unpleasantly humorous way.
If you say that something or someone makes you sick, you mean that they make you feel angry or disgusted.
If you are out sick, you are not at work because you are sick.
If you say that you are worried sick, you are emphasizing that you are extremely worried.