Ailment

(noun.) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.

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• I believe grief is, and always has been, my worst ailment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The ailment is not physical. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If you encourage servants in giving way to every little disagreeable feeling, and complaining of every little ailment, you'll have your hands full. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• One or two of the pensionnaires complained of headache, and in other respects seemed slightly to participate in Georgette's ailment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His talk was to the same purpose as usual--all about himself and his ailments, his wonderful coins, and his matchless Rembrandt etchings. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In some of Henry's ailments I have nursed him--better, she said, than any woman could nurse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They even sought for a substance that might effect all transmutations, and be for mankind a cur e for all ailments, even that of growing old. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This treatment may have answered with the early ailments of the Indians. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• If I was one of the complaining sort, or ever made any fuss about my ailments, there would be some reason for it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Edison at sixty-three has a fine physique, and being free from serious ailments of any kind, should carry on the traditions of his long-lived ancestors as to a vigorous old age. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Désirée, suddenly cured of her ailments, wastogether with Fifine, packed off to Bonne-Maman, in the country, by way of precaution against infection. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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