Ill
[ɪl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) presaging ill fortune; 'ill omens'; 'ill predictions'; 'my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven'- P.B.Shelley; 'a dead and ominous silence prevailed'; 'a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government' .
(adj.) distressing; 'ill manners'; 'of ill repute' .
(adj.) resulting in suffering or adversity; 'ill effects'; 'it's an ill wind that blows no good' .
(adj.) indicating hostility or enmity; 'you certainly did me an ill turn'; 'ill feelings'; 'ill will' .
(adj.) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; 'ill from the monotony of his suffering' .
(adv.) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; 'he was ill prepared'; 'it ill befits a man to betray old friends'; 'the car runs badly'; 'he performed badly on the exam'; 'the team played poorly'; 'ill-fitting clothes'; 'an ill-conceived plan'.
(adv.) with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; 'we can ill afford to buy a new car just now'.
(adv.) unfavorably or with disapproval; 'tried not to speak ill of the dead'; 'thought badly of him for his lack of concern'.
整理:米莉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.
(a.) Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.
(a.) Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.
(a.) Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.
(n.) Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.
(n.) Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.
(adv.) In a ill manner; badly; weakly.
贝丽尔整理
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Bad, evil, unfortunate, unfavorable.[2]. Wicked, wrong, iniquitous, naughty.[3]. Indisposed, ailing, unwell, sick, on the sick list, out of sorts, out of health, laid on the shelf, laid on the back, under the weather.
n. [1]. Wickedness, depravity, evil.[2]. Misfortune, calamity, misery, pain.
ad. [1]. Badly, not well.[2]. With difficulty, not easily.
吉米編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. (comp. worse; superl. worst) evil bad: contrary to good: wicked: producing evil: unfortunate: unfavourable: sick: diseased: improper: incorrect: cross as temper.—adv. not well: not rightly: with difficulty—(rare) Ill′y.—n. evil: wickedness: misfortune.—Ill when compounded with other words expresses badness of quality or condition as 'ill-advised ' 'ill-affected ' 'ill-disposed ' &c.—adj. Ill′-beseem′ing (Shak.) unbecoming.—n. Ill′-blood ill-feeling: resentment.—adjs. Ill′-bod′ing inauspicious; Ill′-bred badly bred or educated: uncivil.—n. Ill′-breed′ing.—adjs. Ill′-condit′ioned in bad condition: churlish; Ill′-fat′ed bringing ill-fortune; Ill′-faurd (Scot.) Ill′-fā′voured ill-looking: deformed: ugly.—n. Ill′-fā′vouredness state of being ill-favoured: deformity.—adjs. Ill′-got -ten procured by bad means; Ill′-haired (Scot.) cross-grained; Ill′-judged not well judged; Ill′-look′ing having a bad look; Ill′-manned′ insufficiently provided with men; Ill′-nā′tured of an ill nature or temper: cross: peevish.—adv. Ill′-nā′turedly.—ns. Ill′-nā′turedness the quality of being ill-natured; Ill′ness sickness: disease.—adjs. Ill′-off in bad circumstances; Ill′-ō′mened having bad omens: unfortunate; Ill′-starred born under the influence of an unlucky star: unlucky; Ill′-tem′pered having a bad temper: morose: fretful: (Shak.) disordered; Ill′-timed said or done at an unsuitable time.—v.t. Ill′-treat to treat ill: to abuse.—n. Ill′-turn an act of unkindness or enmity.—adj. Ill′-used badly used or treated.—ns. Ill′-will unkind feeling: enmity; Ill′-wish′er one who wishes harm to another.—adj. Ill′-wrest′ing misinterpreting to disadvantage.—Go ill with to result in danger or misfortune; Take it ill to be offended.
整理:瓦莱丽
例句/造句/用法:
- Yet it was a hard time for sensitive, high-spirited Jo, who meant so well and had apparently done so ill. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- You have behaved very ill to me, said his lordship. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The family don't want her here, and they'll say it's because I've been ill, because I'm a weak old woman, that she's persuaded me. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- As I was descending the grand staircase in a very ill-humour, a well-known voice, from a little dark passage, called me by my name. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I would not tell him that I thought him dying, so I expressed my regret that he had not written to me when he was so ill. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- When I found we could not be married I didn't like to come back with him, and I was very ill. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It's enough to make one ill to be told one looks so! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening's tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It was a tawdry and ill-conceived imitation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Rosamond thought, Poor Mary, she takes the kindest things ill. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I do not know how long she has been ill. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Though I shall always say he used my daughter extremely ill; and if I was her, I would not have put up with it. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Lest any man think I mean to be ill-natured when I talk about our pilgrims as I have been talking, I wish to say in all sincerity that I do not. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Instinct more than reason had taught them a remedy for these ills. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- And the soul which we behold is in a similar condition, disfigured by ten thousand ills. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- People hate to be reminded of ills they are unable or unwilling to remedy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She adhered, therefore, to the ills she knew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- EVENTFUL winter passed; winter, the respite of our ills. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Here it was that she tended her boy and watched him through the many ills of childhood, with a constant passion of love. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The stress and strain of modern life has opened wide the door to a multitude of bodily ills, among which may be mentioned headache. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
校對:凯尔西