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disease

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  • Conjugation : past  diseased ; ing  diseasing
  • Derivatives : adj  diseased
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

disease [dɪ'ziːz]
  1. 1. noun [c/u] (illness) 病
  2. 2. noun [c] [liter] (affliction) 弊病

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

disease [dɪˈziːz]
  1. 1. n.[c/u] 病,疾病不适
    Smoking is linked both to lung cancer and heart disease.
    吸烟引起肺癌心脏病
  2. 2. n.[c] 弊病弊端,不健全
  3. 3. n.[c/u] [Botany] 病害
  4. 4. vt. 感染,使患病

Collins English-English Dictionary

disease [dɪ'ziːz]
  1. 1. n any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, esp a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress, etc, producing characteristic symptoms; illness or sickness in general
  2. 2. n a corresponding condition in plants
  3. 3. n any situation or condition likened to this
    the disease of materialism
  4. 4. n [Etymology] C14: from Old French desaise; see dis-1, ease

Examples

This information will help identify disease agents responsible for future disease outbreaks.
该信息将帮助识别那些造成未来疾病发作的疾病源。
The disease attacked him suddenly.
疾病突然侵袭了他。
a congenital disease
先天病
contract a disease
得病
the fatality of any specified disease
某种疾病的致命影响
a functional disease
机能性病,官能性病
an insidious disease
隐袭的疾病

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