词汇 | ail |
释义 | ail verb uk /eɪl/ us /eɪl/ ailverb (CAUSE DIFFICULTY)[ T ]formal to cause difficulty and problems for someone or something: 困扰,使苦恼;使处境困难 The government seems to have no understanding of what ails the country.政府好像不了解国家问题的症结所在。 Causing difficulties for oneself or others ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be a tall orderidiom be asking for troubleidiom be your own worst enemyidiom bother someone with something catch dig make heavy weather of somethingidiom make it difficult for someone to do something obduracy open a can of worms overburden sand shoot store up trouble/problemsidiom subject someone/something to something sucker punch swamp tall wrong-foot ailverb (BE/MAKE ILL)[ I or T ]old-fashioned to be ill, or to cause to be ill: (使)生病;(使)不适 She had been ailing for years before she died.她去世前几年就一直病魔缠身。 Being & falling ill acquire be a martyr to somethingidiom be green around the gillsidiom be hangingidiom be laid upidiom be out of sortsidiom bring declension develop lay someone up martyr not a hundred percentidiom pick pick someone/something up predisposed serious sicken strike succumb upset ail | American Dictionaryail verb[ I/T ] us/eɪl/ to feel or cause someone to feel ill, unhealthy, or weak: [ T ]I don’t know what’s ailing her. Examples of ailail It can be argued that having the desire, and knowing how to manage the ailing body, helped provide a sense of self-worth, identity and empowerment. Indeed, their presence was prominent and reflected in the poetry and the pre ailing images of youth from the time. Accordingly, all forms of f uturedirected social planning were viewed as contributions to the recovery of the ailing motherland. At a personal level, changes in functional capacity and dealing with the sometimes ailing body can serve as a deterrent. Reasons are threefold : these countries have large and ailing pay-as-you-go public pension systems, relatively thin capital markets and less than benchmark capital performance. The confrontation by then was not with the ailing khedives, who had already lost much of their ability to rule or control. Good middle-class women could write primers featuring overindulged or ailing bodies with authority and social sanction. Their ideals, writings, projects and political struggles still have much wisdom to offer wherever ailing cities seek a cure. The ' sandwich generation ' of midlife women has many cares both children and ailing parents besides other responsibilities. Papers were closed and 'survivors' could no longer be relied upon automatically to offer support to the ailing party. Consequently, the solution must begin internally, with the production and export of products for which the ailing economy has a comparative advantage. The diagnosis of body-politic implicitly and explicitly challenged the royal and state authority and authorized the people to take charge of the ailing motherland. When such words juvenile gets /ail, (s)l/, and percentile form adverbs by adding -ly, their gets /ail/ only. Foremost in our minds was the need to interview aged and ailing pioneers. It is not mere imbalance that ails social psychology, rather, it is the lack of a scientific approach to its subject matter. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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