ailment

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ail·ment /ˈeɪlmənt/ noun [countable] MIILLNESS/DISEASEan illness that is not very serious 小病，不适 minor ailments 小恙► see thesaurus at illness

Examples from the Corpus

ailment• About 200 such teams have been formed for 24 ailments, and Oxford expects to assemble another 500 teams this year.• Colds, flu or any ailment that diminishes vocal stamina and luster are potentially disastrous.• Patients who often complain of minor ailments might have something more important on their minds.• The medicine was supposed to cure all kinds of ailments, ranging from colds to back pains.• What is the cost of an ulcer, high blood pressure and other ailments endemic in banking?• Happily there were no reports of scurvy, beri beri or other ailments caused by malnutrition!• But belief increases the likelihood of a predicted outcome: placebos against psychic ailments work astonishingly well.• The studies examined did not seek to determine the relative importance of age and parity to development of maternity related ailments.• The most commonly reported ailment among VDU operators is eye-strain.• I was, after all, a stranger, and well-bred ex-governesses did not discuss their ailments in public.• But it was unclear Wednesday what caused the victims' ailments.minor ailments• Coughs and colds and minor ailments began to seem poor substitutes for the wounds everybody had been expecting when the bombs fell.• Consultations, mostly for minor ailments, are characteristically brief.• A series of minor ailments led Grant and Julie to take Maisie to a doctor, and tests revealed leukaemia.• Aromatherapy, as it is more usually practised, is about prevention of major illness and the symptomatic treatment of minor ailments.• In many states, liberalized workers' compensation programs have permitted unscrupulous employees to parlay minor ailments into early retirements.• Males will have found themselves reassessing minor ailments.• Ever since I arrived here at Brixton I have been ill with various minor ailments.

ail·ment nounChineseSyllable

is not very that Corpus illness an serious

ailment
ail‧ment /ˈeɪlmənt/

noun [countable]
an illness that is not very serious:

minor ailments

THESAURUS

■ an illness that is not very serious
   ▪ bug informal an illness that spreads to other people very easily but that is not very serious: There’s a bug going round at school and a lot of the children are absent. | a flu bug
   ▪ complaint medical an illness that affects a particular part of your body, especially one that is not very serious – used by doctors: a minor skin complaint | Deakin suffers from a back complaint called arachnoiditis.
   ▪ ailment /ˈeɪlmənt/ formal an illness that affects a particular part of your body, especially one that is not serious: People often go to their doctor about relatively minor ailments. | The ointment is used to treat ailments such as small wounds and insect bites.

ail·ment

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NAmE

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noun

an illness that is not very serious 轻病；小恙

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childhood/common/minor ailments

儿童期／常见／轻微小病

<titled tranID="34" status="1">disease</titled>illness ◇ disorder ◇ infection ◇ condition ◇ ailment ◇ bug

These are all words for a medical problem. 以上各词均表示健康问题。

disease a medical problem affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused by infection 常指人、动植物感染的病、疾病：◆He suffers from a rare blood disease. 他患有一种罕见的血液病。
illness a medical problem, or a period of suffering from one 指病、疾病或患病期：◆She died after a long illness. 她久病不愈而亡。

disease or illness? 用 disease 还是 illness？

Disease is used to talk about more severe physical medical problems, especially those that affect the organs. Illness is used to talk about both more severe and more minor medical problems, and those that affect mental health. * disease 指较严重的身体疾病，尤其是影响身体器官的疾病。illness 指重病或小病均可，也可指精神上的疾病：◆heart/kidney/liver illness◆mental disease Disease is not used about a period of illness. * disease 不指患病期：◆She died after a long disease.

disorder (rather formal) an illness that causes a part of the body to stop functioning correctly 指失调、紊乱、不适、疾病：◆a rare disorder of the liver 一种罕见的肝病 NOTE A disorder is generally not infectious. Disorder is used most frequently with words relating to mental problems, for example psychiatric, personality, mental and eating. When it is used to talk about physical problems, it is most often used with blood, bowel and kidney, and these are commonly serious, severe or rare. * disorder 一般不传染，多与有关精神问题的词连用，如 psychiatric/personality/mental/eating disorder（精神错乱；人格障碍；精神紊乱；进食障碍）。谈到身体方面的问题常与下列词连用，如 blood/bowel/kidney disorder（血液病；肠道失调；肾脏疾病），这些疾病一般用 serious、severe 或 rare 等词修饰。
infection an illness that is caused by bacteria or a virus and that affects one part of the body 指由细菌或病毒引起的身体某部位的感染或传染疾病：◆a throat infection 喉部感染
condition a medical problem that you have for a long time because it is not possible to cure it 指因不可治愈而长期患有的疾病：◆a heart condition 心脏病
ailment (rather formal) an illness that is not very serious 指轻病、小恙：◆childhood ailments 儿童期小病
bug (informal) an infectious illness that is usually fairly mild 指轻微的传染病、小病：◆a nasty flu bug 严重的流感

Patterns

to have/suffer from a(n) disease/illness/disorder/infection/condition/ailment/bug
to catch/contract/get/pick up a(n) disease/illness/infection/bug