詞彙精選：disease的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
病，疾病 [C]
例句：
Crowded conditions favour the spread of disease.
擁擠的條件便於疾病傳播。
例句：
Disease of animal and vegetable pests propagate with extreme rapidity.
動植物病害傳播極快。
【植】病害 [C]
例句：
Disease of animal and vegetable pests propagate with extreme rapidity.
動植物病害傳播極快。
例句：
In many cases, plants infected with nematodes are more susceptible to other pests and disease.
在許多情況下，感染蟲的植株更易感染其它蟲害和病害。
（精神、道德的）不健全；（社會制度等的）弊病 [C]
例句：
He will find among them neither poverty nor disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect.
他會發現，在他們中間沒有貧窮，沒有病態，沒有麻木不仁，沒有痛苦的缺陷。
例句：
Then he slides into the stupor of the disease that has blanked his memory.
隨後他就不知不覺地陷入了那種記憶不清神志恍惚的病態中。
【廢】不安；煩惱 [C]
v.
使有病；使不正常；使不健全 [T]
二、詞義辨析：
illness,sickness,disease,complaint
這些名詞均有“疾病”之意。illness不具體指，而是泛指一切疾病，強調生病的時間或狀語，語體較sickness正式一些。sickness較口語化，可與illness換用，但還可表示“噁心”。disease指具體的疾病，且通常較嚴重，發病時間也較長。complaint現代英語中，既可指症狀，也可指疾病。
三、相關短語：
heart disease
n. 心臟病
infectious disease
n.傳染病
social disease
n.(=venereal disease)性病,花柳病
autoimmune disease
自家免疫性疾病，自身免疫病，自體免疫性疾病
black disease
黑色病，黑疫
blood disease
血液病，血狀病
caisson disease
沉箱病，潛水員病
cardiovascular disease
心血管病
cat scratch disease
貓抓病
celiac disease
乳糜瀉，脂瀉病
chronic wasting disease
慢性消耗性疾病
communicable disease
傳染病，傳染性疾病
四、參考例句：
The disease is hereditary.
這種病有遺傳性。
Desperate disease requires desperate remedies.
重症要用猛藥醫。
Disease has decimated the population.
疾病使大部分人死亡。
Desperate disease require desperate remedies.
險症要用猛藥醫。
He is eaten up with disease .
他疾病纏身。
Disease is the child of intemperance.
疾病是無節制的產物。
A typical disaster story: disease, corruption, poverty.
一個典型的災難性故事，疾病、腐敗、貧窮。
This disease had deformed his spine.
這個疾病導致他脊柱變形。
This disease is referable to microbes.
這個病是由細菌引起的。
The disease is affecting his eyesight.
這種疾病正影響着他的視力。
